by Gary Lavan | Nov 16, 2020 | Dyslexia & Literacy
What Works for Literacy Difficulties is intended to make it easier for schools or other education settings to make comparisons between literacy interventions. In order to judge whether an initiative has really made a difference, it is not enough just to ask the...
by Gary Lavan | Nov 15, 2020 | Dyslexia & Literacy
November 2020 sees the publication of the 6th edition of ‘What Works For Literacy Difficulties?’ (Lavan & Talcott, 2020). The 5th edition was published in 2016, and proved an invaluable resource for teaching staff around the UK. The full PDF and...
by Gary Lavan | Nov 25, 2019 | Early Support, Psychology (General)
As trans people become more visible in society, the number of young people feeling confident and able to seek help with their gender identity issues is increasing. So what exactly does it mean to be transgender? The term transgender, or more often trans, is an...
by Gary Lavan | Nov 18, 2019 | Uncategorised
Are young men at risk of mental health problems later in life? And if so, what can you do to mitigate the risks and help them now? In todays blog, we aim to look the reasons many men suffer with their mental health. How big is the problem? It’s reported that 1 in 8...
by Gary Lavan | Nov 11, 2019 | Bullying, Parenting
Research from Public Health England in 2017 showed that 17.9% of 11-15 year olds reported being cyber bullied in the two months prior to being surveyed. So clearly, cyber bullying is an issue. In fact many people are observing that bullying is far more wide spread...
