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or FAX 01473 437590 or email us About Us Making Inclusion Happen!
Colin and Derek meet with President McAleese of Ireland Why Us? We are experienced, nationally renowned educational psychologists who specialise in mainstream inclusion.
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Colin Newton and Derek Wilson are co-founders and Directors of Inclusive Solutions. Together they have a combined experience of over 50 years experience as educational psychologists working across the UK. Previously as Principal and Senior strategic Educational Psychologists in Nottingham City LEA, they bring a wealth of practical, applied solutions and processes from their work with children and young people with exceptional needs aged between 0-19.
Colin Newton MSc. (Educational Psychology) BSc. (Psychology) PGCE and Special tutor (Nottingham University) From 1998 -2001 Colin was Principal Educational Psychologist of City of Nottingham LEA where he contributed to the consultation on and successful development of an inclusive education policy across the LEA. In 2004 Colin and Derek wrote Creating Circles of Friends a revised and extended version of the original text including a chapter on secondary schools. In 1999 Colin and Derek collaborated in the writing of Circles of Friends reflecting some 5 years of training and development work to bring this approach to the UK. · Colin's career has been values driven, but also practical using applied psychology in training and real life problem solving with schools, families and individual children and young people · From 1989-1998 Colin worked in Nottinghamshire educational psychology service as a senior psychologist in Nottingham city with a specialist role in research and development. During this period Colin co wrote Managing Change in Schools, a practical handbook. He led on the development of the 'Bulwell Vision' a community initiative to improve behaviour in a disadvantaged city area · He spent 5 years in Essex as an educational psychologist · Colin started out as a primary school teacher in East Anglia and then went on to train and work as an Educational Psychologist in Newcastle. · Colin is a parent to two sons and a daughter.
Derek Wilson MA Psychology, MA Child Psychology · From 1998 -2001 Derek took a lead role in developing inclusive practice within Nottingham City LEA as a senior educational psychologist. · He worked jointly with consultants from the University of New Hampshire USA, successful in gaining DfEE Standards Fund monies to pilot an LEA Inclusion Facilitation Team. · Further joint work with the University of Vermont, USA led to the development of a pilot Speech and Language Therapy project, also DfEE funded. · Derek has long-standing expertise and interest in peer support in all its forms and has collaborated in the development of a nationally recognised 'best practice' peer counselling scheme/anti-bullying initiative within a Nottingham comprehensive school. . In 2004 Derek rewote the original text with Colin including a secondary chapter: Creating Circles of Friends. · In 1999 he co-authored 'Circles of Friends' with Colin Newton and has delivered training on peer support to a wide variety of audiences. · Derek serves on the Council of Management of The Alliance for Inclusive Education. · He began his career in special needs education at a special school for children with autism, initially as an educational psychologist and then as Headteacher. · Derek has been an LEA Educational Psychologist since 1982, he has supported a wide range of special and mainstream schools, developed a specialist Pre School Unit and a LEA Portage Service · Derek is a parent to two daughters
Doug and Maggie Newton: Admin, Marketing and Accounts
Yes this is Colin's mum and dad! Doug sends out the fliers, keeps a track of who we know and does the invoicing! Maggie is at the end of the phone, not to mention plenty of other stuff... All accounts and admin queries phone: 01473 437590
Associates who work with us
Micheline Mason When I was born I was thought to be perfect, (which of course I was). After four days my parents became very concerned at my incessant crying every time they picked me up or tried to change my nappy. They took me back to hospital where X-rays helped doctors to diagnose Osteogenesis Imperfecta, or 'Brittle Bones'. As I already had fractures in my legs they thought I had a very 'severe' form of the condition, and told my parents that I would probably not live very long. I have a deep and defining memory of this moment when it felt that the whole world stepped back from me. Being a disabled child is very different from being a non- disabled child. The world you inhabit is shaped by prejudice, assumptions, false predictions, and fear. Your ability to withstand this is dependent on the people with whom you are connected – how much they can love you and protect you from the value judgements of others. This is itself a matter of luck – how much support and information they themselves have, and how confident they are to challenge authority and the insidious attempts of society to de-value their children. My family were a mixed bag. They did love me, of this I had no doubt, but they did not have the confidence to fight for me. Consequently my early years were dominated by professionals and by the power of the State to separate me from 'ordinary' society. I spent many months in hospitals, and many years isolated at home. My education consisted of five hours a week Home Tuition while my sister went to school. The boredom and loneliness was crushing. At the age of fourteen I went to a residential Special School in Hampshire, at my own request. It was the first and only place in the UK in which disabled girls could study up to A' level standard. There I was able to study a greater range of subjects and consequently get the qualifications to get into Art College, my sole ambition of the time. More importantly, it gave me access to other young women like me, all of us angry at how the world was treating us. Much healing laughter and tears were shared in our night time dormitories. At Seventeen I went to Art College. It was my first venture into the able-bodied world and neither side were prepared for it. I was too shy to speak, they were too awkward to help. I spent three fairly unhappy years learning about the world in which I had been told I was too 'faulty' to enter. I was generally shocked and disillusioned. The non-disabled world was really not that great, and the people in it seemed to know very little. I realised that I was not motivated by competition, greed or artistic ego, and that commercial art was not for me. This of course led to a big problem in that I was not trained to do anything else. Added to the fact that most employers were too shocked by my diminutive size to imagine me managing in their factories or offices, I was forced down a very difficult path to follow, but one which has, in the end, been infinitely richer and more satisfying than a life designing cereal boxes or advertisements. I had to learn to take charge of my own life. The remainder of my story up to now demands a whole book to be written. The significant events are: all my close relationships; I still believe that people are essentially good, and can and will eventually build a classless, inclusive society. I love being part of making it happen. Apart from all the above issues, I am interested in listening to folk music, painting and photography, and am working with a group of friends to set up 'Full Circle', a co-housing community in the West of England in which one day I hope to live with my friends, growing old disgracefully together. Read more of Micheline's story on her website .
Jackie Dearden and Ju Hayes
Jackie is involved in a range of training and consultancy, which includes working as an educational psychologist in Nottingham City. Her doctoral research has led to publications about resilience (particularly in relation to children and young people in public care) and multi-agency working. Jackie’s current interests also include action research (especially in relation to challenging assumptions and improving practice for young people with severe communication impairments), graphic facilitation processes and effective inclusive practice. Ju works as a Participation Co-ordinator for Barnardo’s, promoting the involvement of children and young people in service delivery and design, as well as working as an educational psychologist in Nottingham City. She has devised and published a technique for involving children in their reviews, called ‘visual annual reviews’, and is currently hoping to promote Inclusion in Latin America, using her hard won Spanish A-level and experience in Panama, Nicaragua and Peru.
Robin Tinker Robin worked for more than 20 years at Elliott Durham Secondary School in the City of Nottingham, latterly as a Head of Department of Humanities and PSHE. In 1995 he and Derek Wilson were responsible for instigating and developing the school’s Anti Bullying Campaign (ABC), a Peer Counselling scheme. ABC became nationally and internationally recognised as a model of “best practice.” International Associates
Jack Pearpoint
Jack is a dear friend and inspiration to our work here at Inclusive Solutions. Without him there would be no us! INCLUSION PRESS INTERNATIONAL Inclusion, Community, Diversity Founding Publishers: Jack Pearpoint & Marsha Forest Inclusion Press creates person centered resource materials for training events, public schools, high schools, community colleges, universities, human service agencies, health organizations, government agencies, families, First Nations organizations - nationally and internationally. Carol Tashie
Carol Tashie was Project Co-ordinator, Institute on Disability at The University of New Hampshire USA. Carol is the co-ordinator of both New Hampshire's Statewide School Systems Change Project and the Post Secondary Education Consortium of New Hampshire administered by The Institute on Disability. She is co-author of From Special to Regular, From Ordinary to Extraordinary (1996) and Petroglyphs: The Writing on the Wall (1997) and Changes in Attitudes. Changes in Latitudes: The Role of the Inclusion facilitator. Prior to joining The Institute, Carol was one of the first Inclusion facilitators in New Hampshire (moving in the process from the traditional special education teacher role) and was responsible for returning all of her District's students to their neighbourhood mainstream schools. Read more about the training programme for Inclusion Facilitators at The Institute on Disability at the University of New Hampshire at: http://iod.unh.edu/projects/inclusion_facilitator.html Robi Kronberg
Robi Kohlberg has worked as a consultant with school districts throughout the United States. The two areas of greatest focus for her work are differentiated teaching and inclusion. Both of these areas address practical ways of supporting diverse learners in mainstream schools. Her approach to differentiated instruction addresses a wide range of diverse learners including students with disabilities, students who are gifted, those who don't speak English as a primary language and so on. Robi has been in education for 25 years. She has worked as a special needs teacher, a Senior Consultant at the Colorado Department of Education, a professor, and a coordinator of many federal grants. She has a Ph.D. in Educational Policy and Administration and a Masters in Special Education.
Want to check us out? Email Gerv Leyden Nottingham University Lecturer and Associate tutor for Educational Psychologists in training and ask him...
Who has received training and consultation from 'INCLUSIVE SOLUTIONS' so far? · LEAs including Newham, South Tyneside, Hartlepool, Essex, Southwark, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Oldham, Doncaster, Bracknell Forest, Isle of White, Sutton, South and North Lanarkshire, Oxfordshire, Glasgow, Herefordshire and Knowsley
Schools: primary, secondary, and special in Nottinghamshire, Nottingham City, Essex, North East England, Oldham, London, Scotland and elsewhere · Children, young people and their families · Health Authority employees in the learning disability, mental health fields as well as those in paediatric services · Social Services Teams · Parent groups such as Parents for Inclusion and Parent Partnership Projects · Educational Psychological Services such as Essex, Oldham, Oxfordshire, Wakefield and Surrey, West Lothian · Canadian inclusion advocates in Toronto . Stamford USA: The ARC organisation . Teachers and researchers in Nova Scotia · Voluntary Organisations and groups such as the St Ann's Artists of Nottingham · Charities such as Kidscape · The Association of Educational Psychologists · City of Nottingham Museum Services .Connexions services in Cumbria and Derbyshire .Early Years Providers across the UK including Southwark, Lambeth, Durham, Lancashire and Oxfordshire . Irish Travellers Greek Teachers in Athens
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