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Have just been informed by my sons school that they will no longer administer his inhaler but will be kept in his classroom for him to take himself. Am a bit worried that he will forget to take it some days.

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Hi - I assume he's in primary school? I used to be a primary teacher - what I would do to encourage independence (but I wouldn't just change it and expect him to handle it himself) is if he requires it at regular times, or always before PE at a regular time, to make a visual timetable and laminate it and stick it to his table as a constant visual reminder. I taught a class where over half had SEN or severe medical needs and so we had 'elephant reminders' suitable for each child who needed them on their tables. Some were constant and printed, i.e. take inhaler before playtime, remember to take inhaler to PE lesson, etc. others where flexibility was needed were blank but because they were laminated I wrote on them daily in whiteboard pen if there was a particular need. I of course always checked (sometimes explicitly, sometimes just watching to make sure they did) but it did seem to help to promote independence. I used the same elephant reminders for kids without specific needs for other things - so if a child was always forgetting fullstops for example - so it was seen by the whole class as something normal.

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Ratty, what a fab idea!