Anyone interested in another Moondog training session?

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Evening all.

I went to Moondog's training session in B'ham earlier this year and found it really useful as well as enjoying the opportunity to meet other MNers.

I wondered if anyone would be interested in attending another one - perhaps in the SE this time?

For me personally, I'd love to consolidate some of what was covered at the first session and being totally selfish, would also want to cover some topics that would be relevant to my DD starting school next year.

For those who don't know, Moondog is a regular poster here. She is a v experienced SALT with an MSc in Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA).

The session some of us attended in B'ham was really an introduction to ABA with Moondog and her colleague sharing several practical ABA-based techniques that they have used very successfully with children with SN - to help both with communication and learning.

So, if you're interested and think you could help me persuade Moondog to run another course, please post below giving an indication of what would be helpful to you and what region would suit you best (SE, Midlands etc). If there's enough common ground, then we might be able to set something up.

Many thanks

Watford?

LMAO at Herts as a base for ABA outreach... star, you are naughty

Well Lisad said she had a bunch of parents from that way and it's kind of London and outside the congestion zone, and to the west-ish for people coming from that way.

Would this be irony, revenge, or awareness-raising?

This is their usual menu of courses

Hot

Writing in the homeschool every day book gives you a classroom presence. It keeps the communication channels open rather that being reserved for just when you have a burning issue and means both sides can give regular feedback.

Even if you just say 'ds was proud of his sticker today' or 'ds was telling dd about what is healthy to eat' or 'Ds was hard to wake this morning' etc.'

Rather than saving your comments for 'stop giving Ds learning breaks when he fidgets coz it's making him more fidgety'.

Hot, what Star has said is spot on.
Makes all the difference in getting people doing waht you want them to do if, to use trendy terminology you engage.
Hearty guffaw at the link to Herts. conference centre!"

That's the centre where I attended an ASD Worksop for schools and parents to attend together where the feedback questionnaire had as the first two questions:

1. How confident were you at managing a child with autism?
2. how confident are you now at managing a child with autism?

Ffs. There were PARENTS there!

Watford might be too far out for me. If it suits everyone else, then I'll wait for something Central-ish London or SE.

Couthy, there are fast trains from Euston to Watford which take 15 min. It's faster than getting to much of zone 1.

Your train would come in to Liverpool street, then it's just a few stops around the circle line and you're at Euston.

London I would be looking at 6.5 hours by train at least. It really would be too expensive a trip for me all round I think plus I would need to leave at very silly oclock lol

Maybe next time you will all book a caravan by the sea

Skype sounds good if its plausible :)

Coff, in the summer we'd camp next door!

Star!!The bloody thing is still for sale!

Its waiting for yoouuuuuuuuuuuu

ahem! you could stick a small caravan on my driveway (get me driveway oooo!) I mean flattened paved garden

I didn't know that, about the fast train from Euston. It's not a direction I've travelled in. If it doesn't take that long, it's a possibility, but the cost of two train fares might be prohibitive. Will look up costs.

Watford's about 100 miles away from me!

Why don't we have it in Coffs neighbours house? (is it empty/easy to break into?)

Oooooh fudge! mmmmm

No star sadly I have to look at their miserable faces still and the dog is still snarling through the window after they had poisoned him with spray and burnt his fur grrrr.

come on tho think wisely fifty quid a piece from the whole of MN and we could have a MN holiday home meet up place I would even chip on lol!

yes please- I am in NW London :)

zzz
yay! come to me.... fudge on tap.... PS if it helps with the pursuading might be able to get free venue with free parking if session was in Swindon... (can't promise, but hopeful)

Honestly zzzzz I don't know what on earth the perception MNers hold of me. EVERYONE who meets me tells me I don't look like me.

You do know I can't cook right and have NEVER been to a hairdressers, don't own a handbag and never have, - don't even own a purse. For that matter I don't have a changing bag for ds . Having never owned anything with a nike logo (not sure why that is significant but people always seem surprised).

But I do love camping because the kids can just stay in the same clothes for days and run around lots and although self-catering sounds like hard work, it is nowhere near as hard work as trying to make them behave in hotels. The most relaxed I've ever been is camping. We went camping when baby ds was only 1 month old and then again at 2 months.