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Effective Practice Hub

The Effective Practice Hub holds a wealth of useful resources to help support children and young people with physical disability.

Free to access, resources available include information and advice leaflets, case studies, risk assessment examples and ‘top tips’.

All resources have been written and shared by professionals from across the physical disability sector and then quality assured by the pdnet Editorial Board.

Please note although all resources included within the Effective Practice Hub have been quality assured, pdnet can accept no responsibility for any actions taken or not taken solely by reference to their contents. Please remember that every child and young person with physical disability is unique and that you should seek advice from the appropriate professionals before implementing any changes.

Resources

165 resources found

Checklist for Setting Access Visit

Early Years Case Studies Conditions Curriculum Useful Links

A checklist for Early Year’s settings to support and enable inclusion and independence for children aged 0-4.

8 Scissor Skills

9 Play Clay and Dough

Top Tips Early ICT Skills

Top Tips Early Skills

Top Tips Risk Assessment

Duchenne Training Slides

Ideas for Finger Gym Boxes

Disability Rights Fire Safety Advice for Learners with PD

Pdnet Medical Needs

Individual Environmental Access Audit

The Role of the Teacher working with Pupils with PD

Pdnet Top Tips Early Skills

Top Tips for LSA Supporting Pupils with PD

Durham Pupil Risk Assessment Form Example

Checklist for School Access Visit

Pupil Profile and Advice Template

WCC SEND Toileting Guidance

Secondary PE Leaflet Advice

The Educational Implications of Epilepsy

Swimming Checklist

Warwickshire Access Pro forma

A Manual Wheelchair in School

A Splint in my Shoe

A Standing Frame in my Classroom

Have you thought about adapted PE

A Powered Wheelchair in School

Doing Fine

Getting Around School with a Walking Aid

PE; Including children and young people with physical disabilities

Risk Assessment for Home Working

Supporting Achievement for Pupils with PD in PE

Supporting Pupils with Medical Conditions

Planning School Trips

Top Tips for Crossing the Midline

Top Tips for Left-Handers with PD

Using Specialist Seating in Schools or Settings

Top Tips Seating and Posture

Swimming Symbols

6 Finger Gym and Suppliers

Spina Bifida

7 Two Handed Tasks

PNI Transition planning

10 Point Checklist to Help Decide if a Child or Young Person Needs a Handling Plan

10 Writing Rap

PNI Guidance on Sleeping in School

Construction Toys

PNI Good practice guidance for intimate care

Developing Writing Skills for Pupils with Motor Co-ordination Difficulties

Planning a school residential trip

Fine Motor Skills Activities

Physical Management Planning

Finger Gym*

PD Template for Management Plan

Neuromuscular Conditions

Motor Skills Advice for Secondary Schools

Handbook Curriculum

Motor Skills Advice for Primary Schools

Self Esteem*

Managing Intimate and Personal Care in Schools and Post 16 Settings

Mainstream Physical Education for the Student who uses a Wheelchair

Pupil Pushing a Wheelchair

Individual Environmental Access Audit

Risk Assessment – Crutches

Including Children and Young People with Medical Needs

Risk Assessment – Manual Wheelchair

Ideas for Finger Gym boxes

Risk Assessment – Wheelchair use

Equality and Human Rights Reasonable Adjustments for Disabled Pupils Guidance

Cerebral Palsy Power Point training slides

Top Tips Risk Assessments

Assessing the risk

Top Tips Support CYP with PD to Organise

Advice for Education Settings

Warwickshire Pupil Handling Risk Assessment Template

Wheelchair Awareness

WM classroom guide

Supported Internship Guidance

16 to 19 Study Programmes Guidance

Inclusion of Swimmers with a Disability

SEND Reform Guide

Supporting Children and Young People to Stay Safe Online

pdnet Case Studies, Special School

pdnet Case Studies, School

Audit Tool for Transition Planning

Top Tips Keyboard Recognition Skills

Benny’s Shunt Malfunction poster

Friend Benny Membership Form

Guidance and Activity booklet

Assessment Strategies for Children and Young People with Hydrocephalus

Hydrocephalus – Quick Teaching Tips

Hydrocephalus – Medical Alerts

Ipad Apps for Complex Communication Support Needs

Disability Books

Shine FAQs Physical Disability and Educational Settings

Shine Inclusive PE, Games and Sports Days in Mainstream Schools

SEN and Hydrocephalus at a glance

SEN and Hydrocephalus at a glance

Hydrocephalus – SEN Support Planning

Arthritis (Juvenile Idiopathic)

Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease

Congenital Muscular Dystrophies

Cerebral Palsy

Dyspraxia (Development Coordination Disorder)

Hydrocephalus

Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis

Lower Limb Abnormalities

Muscular Dystrophy

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Brittle Bones)

Perthes Disease

Restricted Growth

Spina Bifida

Upper Limb Abnormalities

Gross Motor Skills Activities to Promote Jumping

Gross Motor Skills Activities to Promote Balance

Gross Motor Skills Activities to Promote Ball Skills Catching and Throwing

Gross Motor Skills Activities to Promote Coordination and Sequencing Skills

Gross Motor Skills Activities to Promote Core Stability

Gross Motor Skills Activities to Promote Hopping

Gross Motor Skills Activities to Promote Running

Gross Motor Skills Activities to Promote Skipping

Gross Motor Skills Checklist

Gross Motor Skills

Gross Motor Skills Activities for Obstacle Course

Rhymes to support Body Awareness

Apps for Study

Exam Technique and Revision

Staying calm before and during exams

Who’s Who Contact Sheet

All about me

Talking with parents

Guidance for Transition from Nursery to School

Cerebral Palsy – awareness raising training

Pre Risk Assessment Checklist

The Equality Act 2010 in Settings

Checklist for Child Starting Preschool setting

Definition of Terms

Passport for Reception entry – All About Me

Successful Transition

Continence Confidence

Top Tips Toys for Early Years Children with SEND

Toys for Early Years Children with SEND – Safety

Early Years – Fiction books

Foundation and KS1 Fiction Books

Early Years – Reference books

Personal, Social, Emotional Development and Wellbeing

Self-Help Skills

Dressing Skills

Dressing Skills CTS

Getting Seating Right!

Gross Motor Skills – Posture

Rulers

Transport for School Trips

Top Tips for trips

Cerebral Palsy

Short Stature

Managing Continence in School

Audit for settings

Case Study – Art Painting

Case Study – Art Portraiture

Transition Case Study

Transition – Y9 Mid-Term Case Study

My Views Pupil feedback form – school age

Parent feedback form – school age

Inclusion in Physical Education and School Sports