The specialist families call when a bright child is falling apart at school.

You may be carrying one of these sentences.

• "Bright, but won't apply themselves."
• "Fine at school. Explodes the moment they're home."
• "The school keeps calling and I dread the phone."
• "Everyone says they're fine. I know they're not."
• "We've tried everything and nothing sticks."

If one of these is the sentence in your head, you are in the right place, and you are not imagining it. Each of these patterns has a mechanism. Understanding the mechanism is where everything starts to change.

The method

The Aspinall Method

Most support treats the child as the problem to be corrected. The Aspinall Method starts from a different premise, grounded in the neuroscience of load, regulation and prediction: a child's behaviour is information about the fit between that child and the environments they live in.

Built on the Ecological Inclusion Framework, the Method assesses those environments across six domains, sensory, cognitive, communication, social, emotional and temporal, then changes what the environments are asking of the child, at home and at school, together. One assessment. One written strategy. One person in charge of the whole picture.