Dr Lin's Academic Support

25/08/2026

Thanks to Jayne for taking me to Playwrights!!! Such a beautiful day out.

21/07/2026

My new book is available on Amazon

08/04/2026

Interesting young lad in “pets at home” on Gallagher retail park . I popped in to buy some fish for my very large tank. A very disrespectful young lad served me. He wanted a photo of my tank before he’d sell me some fish. He also wanted to know how big my tank was . Did not believe me . Refused to sell fish to me. Told me “ I’m not going to loose my job over selling fish to you “ Apparently the welfare of fish was in law for two years now!! I have been a customer here for years but never got refused or told to produce evidence I had a very large tank!!! No worries I bought elsewhere , much better attitude .

24/02/2026

In art today we considered mixing colours . Mia considered the buiscuits jar a lot.

14/10/2025

EECERJ Call for Papers
Special Issue on Early Education for All: Celebrating Diversity and Seeking Inclusion: The EECERJ Editorial Team is seeking research papers which critically explore the development and implementation of inclusive policies and practices which reach excluded and marginalized groups and provides them with quality education that has inclusive curricula, pedagogy and learning at their heart.

The Special Issue will focus on the following key topics:
what constitutes inclusive early education and how this is culturally located
which children are excluded, how does this happen and how this might be changed
how exclusionary policies and practices can be challenged and new practices developed to ensure each child’s needs are considered so that all learners participate and achieve together
how inclusion might work in different cultures and communities and with regard to children with different characteristics
understandings of the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of exclusion and inclusion in its broadest sense
what possibilities do we have to embed inclusive policies and practices within all early education systems and settings?
EECERA 2025 conference presenters are strongly encouraged to submit.

Deadline for submissions is 14th November 2025.

Find out more and submit: https://www.eecera.org/general/eecerj-call-for-papers-special-issue-inclusion/

01/11/2023

10/10/2022

DO YOU KNOW THE SIGNS OF SLOW PROCESSING?

If your child struggles with processing information, homework, lacks focus with reading, and needs extra time to make decisions, they may have trouble with processing speed. Here are additional signs...

https://ilslearningcorner.com/2016-09-processing-speed-slow-processing-speed-makes-simple-tasks-daunting-kids/

10/10/2022

Handwriting is a complex task that requires visual perception, sensory processing, cognitive components, motoric output, awareness of mistakes, and the ability to correct them just to complete written work. The consider the cognitive skills to integrate all of these areas:

attention
planning
focus
problem solving
impulse control
emotional control
organization
task initiation
prioritizing and planning
self-awareness
working memory
flexibility in thinking

Read more on handwriting and EF here:

https://www.theottoolbox.com/handwriting-executive-function-skill-problems/

01/10/2022

Itallian is comming on ( I think)

01/10/2022

We completed a piece of research with more than 100 teachers and parents this week... We aimed to discover the REAL reasons behind school based trauma and school avoidance.

The responses were so interesting, and made complete sense.

The bigger the word, the more it was used in the answers given.

BULLYING | UNMET NEEDS | ANXIETY | MASKING | SENSORY OVERLOAD came up top in the reasons behind school based trauma, but were amongst many other reasons.

As we bring School Avoidance Awareness Week to a close, we hope it's brought about more education on this topic, more validation, better support and more empowerment.

I hope you've found it useful... By all means share your stories, learnings, view points here... And we will be back same time next year for School Avoidance Awareness Week 2023!