When Josh Bond was 15 he was struggling to make it to school more than two days a week. But thanks to a new program designed to help 'school refusers', he has turned a corner and is re-engaging with education.
"It could be they like starting the day with some toast and scrambled eggs … or if they like playing piano we transition into the school day doing something like that," she said.
It also means the classroom is designed differently, with a separate space for couches and bean bags. "We do a lot of activities side-by-side with young people as opposed to face-to-face because eye contact can be really confronting, especially when you have been disengaged from school for a while," Ms Broadbent-Hogan said."When we create an environment and relationships that are trauma informed, it actually can increase the functional IQ of students in your classroom," she said.Josh wants to be a theoretical physicist or work in the area of chemistry.
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