Anxiety Workbook for Supporting Teens Who Learn Differently

Clare Ward is an independent Speech and Language Therapist specialising in social communication. She consults to primary and secondary schools, having jointly developed and run training for a London education trust for several years and has broad experience across the public sector in Health and Social Services as well as Education. In her clinical practice she works mostly with secondary aged students and young adults, as well as their families as part of Special Networks, a multi-disciplinary group of practitioners based in London. James Galpin is a chartered Developmental Psychologist who specialises in universal difficulties that children and young people experience. He is Head of Research at The Bridge London Trust and a Senior Teaching Fellow at the Institute of Education, UCL. His research focuses on developing practice-based evidence within Education, translating theory into practice. He delivers ITE and CPD across all areas of SEN as well as providing support to children, young people and their families as part of Special Networks.

I love it. Clare Ward and James Galpin begin...from the understanding that uncertainty connects us all. We each need to make sense of it, respond to it and learn to thrive without ever wholly overcoming it. This is a book that takes people's differences seriously, encourages us all to take the time to know and respond to each person that we are called upon to work with and gives us direct guidance as to how we can do so.

• Introduction 1. Understanding Uncertainty: Glasses, Paths and Dials 2. Understanding Our Own Uncertainty: Attitudes, Awareness and Appreciation 3. Structure: Activities to Support Structural Certainty and Routine 4. Sensory: Activities to Support Sensory Certainty5. Social: Activities to Support Social Certainty