Learn and Thrive is a UK national charity, creating and producing free digital educational resources for the SEND community.
While the charity was originally designed for children and young people with Down’s syndrome, over 50% of the current users have a wide range of SEND, primarily autism/ASD.
Significant overlaps in the learning profiles of those with Down’s syndrome and those with autism/ASD allow for a wide network of children and young people to benefit from these free services.
Our resources are built as video lessons, with printable resources to work alongside each video. These lessons should be worked through with an adult and learner(s) present, to support and guide the learner, and to answer any questions that may arise from the content. Lessons can be and are used by teaching staff, parents, and support workers.
You can learn more about Learn and Thrive and our projects below, and visit our website for more information, and sign up for FREE.
Teach Me Too: Early Years Provision for Children
Taught by speech and language therapists and specialist teachers, Teach Me Too focuses on the early years, providing support for developing key skills in speech and language, and cognition and learning.
The five series, Literacy, Mathematics, Wider Curriculum, Language through Play, and Exploring Language, cover a broad spectrum of the early years curriculum, taught for young learners with SEND.
These series are made alongside Inclusively Down, Key Communication, and Symbol UK, all specialists in working with children with Down’s syndrome/SEND.
Learning for Life: Critical RSE Resources for Young People
Developed and taught alongside specialists, Learning for Life is built around the English primary RSE Curriculum, taught age-appropriately for those at the end of primary school, all the way into young adulthood.
While still developing, the Learning for Life project currently teaches many key, basic concepts that are the foundation for understanding more complex issues around relationships, sex, and social and emotional teaching.
The current series is Growing Up and Keeping Safe, Emotions, Caring Friendships, and Being Healthy, with the series The Changing Adolescent Body being released on World Down’s Syndrome Day (21st March).
These foundational series provide clear-cut teaching to be developed in teaching sessions, around public-versus-private, appropriate touch, understanding your emotions and those of others, how to make, repair, and end friendships, and understanding being healthy regarding exercising, food, and looking after ourselves.
