Inclusion Without Labels

ACES (Adverse Childhood Experiences)

Highly stressful, and potentially traumatic, events or situations that occur during childhood and/or adolescence. They can be a single event, or prolonged threats to, and breaches of, the young person's safety, security, trust or bodily integrity.

Co-Regulation

The nurturing connection of another person that supports regulation using strategies, tools, and calming techniques.

Dysregulation

When someone is unable to regulate their own emotional response. They are overwhelmed and unable to manage or control their reactions.

Equality

Everyone should have an equal chance to learn without being treated unfairly because of things like their skin colour,

gender, religion, where they're from, how much money they have, or anything else. It's about making sure all children get the help and things they need to do well.

Equity

Each child receives what they need to develop to their full academic and social potential.

Executive function

The mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully. Just as an air traffic control system at a busy airport safely manages the arrivals and departures of many aircraft on multiple runways, the brain needs this skill set to filter distractions, prioritise tasks, set and achieve goals, and control impulses.

Inclusion

Everyone’s needs are taken into account, and all learners participate and achieve together. What is inclusive education? ALLFIE (the Alliance for Inclusive Education).

Limbic system

A group of interconnected brain structures that help regulate your emotions and behaviour. The limbic system monitors the environment for safety and danger and is also the source of some of our strongest social and prosocial urges.

Masking

The act of suppressing or concealing neurodivergent traits in schools and the workplace to appear neurotypical.

Neurodiversity/ Neurodivergence

When someone's brain processes, learns, and/or behaves differently from what is considered "typical". Neurodiversity is the idea that the way we think is not always the same. Some neurodiverse conditions include autism spectrum condition, dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Neurotypical

Someone not displaying neurologically atypical patterns of thought or behaviour.

Quality First Teaching

A style of teaching that focuses on high-quality and inclusive teaching for every child, ensuring that each pupil receives teaching that suits their learning style.

Pedagogy

The method and practice of teaching.

Schemas

A schema is a pattern of repeated actions. Schemas are often described as children’s fascinations. There are many different types.

Self-regulation

The ability to manage your own behaviour and aspects of your learning.

Theory of Mind

The understanding that other individuals have mental states, such as knowledge, intentions, and beliefs.