Momentum

21/02/2025

We are currently looking for experienced tutors in Kent, Medway and East Sussex. Join teams working with preschool and primary aged children, supporting them on their learning journeys whilst you receive monthly training and supervision from an experienced BCBA/UKBA (cert).

Do you want to be part of compassionate, proactive and effective ABA programmes?

For more information or send you CV, please contact [email protected]

18/01/2025

Something strange is happening. Autism, a serious, neurodevelopmental condition, has gone from being relatively rare to being everywhere.

18/01/2025

We are currently looking for an experienced ABA tutor to work with a young girl supporting her with her play, language, social communication, emotional regulation and academic skills.

Location: Crowborough, East Sussex
Hours: After school hours and weekends

Monthly training and team meetings with a UKBA/BCBA. RBT supervision offered if required.

Good rates of pay for the right tutor. Good references and DBS checks required.

Please send your CV and availability to [email protected]

08/01/2025

It’s such a minefield for parents looking for support for their child…

Autism and The Telepathy Tapes Review: There’s no scientific evidence supporting telepathy—none. Zero. The same goes for facilitated communication.

22/10/2024

Love this…

🚨 ABA therapy 🚨
Things we SHOULD all agree on:

1. Just like the entirety of modern medicine & public education…ABA therapy has a dark and disturbing history.

2. Real people have been (and some continue to be) hurt physically, emotionally, and psychologically from applications of therapy, education, and medicine.

3. Harm caused by any institution cannot be ignored.

🚨 Things you probably didn’t know:

1. While ABA as a whole is not “better now” …coming from me, a person “on the inside”…
there’s an incredible number of people who’ve dedicated their lives to making it way more than just “better”.

2. ABA “reform” has advanced beyond autism acceptance.
Stimming is an encouraged for self regulation. All safe forms of communication are valid.

3. As a more specific example, one of the sub-points in Dr. Greg Hanley’s presentation (the dude in the photo)…was practical strategies for helping high support needs autistic people to take up more space and get their needs met.

🩵 I’m not telling you this to justify harm.

I’m telling you this because no one else will, and as an autistic advocate, I care about you knowing what’s happening in our community - you deserve to be informed.

16/10/2024

Ever wondered what an rapport building looks like? Here’s how it goes…

Your learner shows what they are passsionate about, shows us what they love to do or what to play with.

Tutor finds fun ways to be part of the learners preferred activity, asks themselves ‘how can I build on this?’ ‘how can I make this activity even more fun with my presence?’

Your learner enjoys being with you, seeks you out, asks you for more using gestures, vocals, signs or AAC

You honour requests and bids for attention and the learner learns to trust that being with others can be fun, helpful, useful, accepting, empowering

When you have got to this place, what then? If you have got to this place with your learner, you are in the perfect position to go on to support them in their learning journey.

Rapport building will need topping up! It’s your relationship with you client, keep working at your relationship, show them what it is to be a friend.

17/08/2024

I’m going to do something that’s frowned upon in the autism community. I’m going to say something on behalf of my nonverbal son.

Autism isn’t a superpower for Charlie. Charlie is a superhero because of how hard he fights to do the easy stuff, to which most don’t give a second thought.

If Charlie could communicate beyond basic needs, I believe he’d tell us that for him, autism is not a superpower.

Because I witness firsthand his distress when he can’t make himself understood.

Because I see the scratches on his body from the resulting frustration.

Because I see the confusion in his eyes when I stop him from eating inedible items. Or running into the street.

I know it because he’s my son. Not because I’m also autistic. Because I love him. Because I care for him every day and will likely do so for the rest of my life. I know it because I’m his mommy.

24/07/2024

The ongoing issue of the LA breaching it’s statutory duty…

Parents who should be excited to start the school holidays face an anxious wait to find out where their children will be going to school in September.

24/07/2024

Incredibly sad😞…this is (one of) the effects of an abysmal, broken system failing vulnerable SEN and vulnerable non-SEN children again and again. Here comes a quote…

“If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn,"
Ignacio Estrada

A total of 21,130 suspensions were handed out at schools across the county in the 22/23 academic year

07/07/2024

A family in New Romney, Kent are looking for a committed and energetic tutor to start working at home with their 3 year old son. Play based programme focussing on social communication skills.

Contact [email protected] with your CV or for more information