WonderfulWednesday: WorldToiletDay

Every week the wonderful people at The Makaton Charity share a sign of the week through their #wetalkmakaton initiative. I think it's often a great way of raising awareness of much more than just communication needs.

WonderfulWednesday: It's the BAPS Awards via @weareMFON

If you missed the big fuss last year when the SEND Blogger BAPS Awards were launched, then lucky you get to be wowed from the outset.  My slightly belated wonderful Wednesday post is about this years BAPS Awards - they were so successful they are back and looking better than ever.

WonderfulWednesday: UK Autism Hero Awards

Last Wednesday of the month - time for sharing something great I've found or learnt about online in my Wonderful Wednesday post.  And this month I'm highlighting the UK Autism Hero Awards.

WonderfulWednesday: SEND30DayChallenge via @mumsmissions

This month's wonderful Wednesday share isn't really a single post I found online.  It's a series I've found, all thanks to this idea of a Special Needs Bloggers 30 Day Challenge from Mum On A Mission.

WonderfulWednesday: Father's Day at Sea via @bobscartoons

This month's wonderful Wednesday share was a link emailed to me by my husband.  It's a fantastic animated memoir by The Telegraph cartoonist, Bob, of his family’s first holiday which happened to fall on Father's Day this year.   Bob's daughter, Poppy, is a happy, cheeky, determined little girl who also happens to have cerebral palsy and epilepsy.  This year the family went on holiday and found that despite the difficulties it was well worth going.

WonderfulWednesday: PDA Awareness Day

This month's wonderful Wednesday post highlights the great awareness being raised by bloggers last week on PDA, a type of autism.

WonderfulWednesday: @SingingHands hit pop songs DVD

We have been big fans of Singing Hands for.. well years really. Singing Hands run a range of baby signing classes, toddler signing classes, resources, educational concerts and work in schools, nurseries and more. This week's wonderful Wednesday share is about one of their new fantastic projects that could get you dancing about.

WonderfulWednesday: oktosay via @heads_together

This week's wonderful Wednesday share was found on Heads Together through their twitter feed. It's a fantastic video staring some members of the Royal Family chatting about the normalcy of mental health and how talking about it helps.

WonderfulWednesday: Celebrating the runner via @brightvibes_com

This week's wonderful Wednesday share came via Bright Vibes and was a video from autismrunners.com. Alex and Jamie are autistic and completely dependent, needing 24 hour supervision. They can be very challenging, and at times, have extremely severe behaviours. But this isn't how I found out about these twin brothers. I was just watching a marathon clip.

WonderfulWednesday: Practice going to the cinema via @cuddlefairy

I've come across so much to share over the last week.  It's World Autism Awareness Week and that means I've been inundated with fantastic posts, videos etc. So perhaps I feel a bit weird by having this week's wonderful Wednesday post as nothing to do with autism or even special educational needs. It's just something that could make some lives a bit easier when out and about and that's a wonderful idea so here's a post from Cuddle Fairy on making a cinema at home.

WonderfulWednesday: @_AmazingAutism Amazing Things Happen

I came across this week's wonderful Wednesday share quite a few times.  As I scrolled down my facebook page, I came across this video from Amazing Things Happen, that had been shared by Someone's Mum, Stories About Autism and The SEND Parents Handbook, so thought I'd take a look.

WonderfulWednesday: World Down's Syndrome Day WDSD17

This week's wonderful Wednesday share includes some lovely posts and pieces about World Down's Syndrome Day.

WonderfulWednesday: The latest weather presenter @melaniepeutlefaire

This week's wonderful news piece came via The SEND Parents Handbook facebook page, who highlighted one of articles about Mélanie Ségard, a young women who used social media to help propel herself onto television in France on the 27th of March. According to the Telegraph, Mélanie said that as someone with Down’s Syndrome, it’s a dream she never thought would be possible.

WonderfulWednesday: How to talk to your daughter about her body - @huffpost @childrensociety

This week's wonderful Wednesday share is something I came across on the Huffington Post that reminded me of recent statistics released in The Children's Society's Good Childhood Report 2016.

WonderfulWednesday: BAPS SEND Blog Awards Finalists via @weareMFON

It's been an exciting week in the world of Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) blogging.  My wonderful Wednesday post this week is highlighting the The BAPS Awards.  Although I'm blown away to be one of the finalists this isn't really 'vote for me' post.  I'm quite excited about some wonderful things I've noticed in the week of nominations and finalist announcements.

WonderfulWednesday: The thief of joy @mumsomeone

At first my wonderful Wednesday will seem a bit gloomy this week.  It's really not though.  It's from Danielle at Someone's Mum and is about the happiness she has over her son's personal progress.

WonderfulWednesday: @presenterwayne made me Happy

Sometimes I just want to share something that makes me smile on my wonderful Wednesday posts. This week certainly counts.  I've recently found Wayne Barrow's Facebook page. Wayne has become a bit of an internet sensation for his signing performances of popular songs. Recently this has included Whitney Houston's 'I wanna dance with somebody' and 'Happy' by Pharrell Williams (above).  It had me dancing in the kitchen.

WonderfulWednesday: ADHD is not the fault of me @jodiemarieeaton

This week's wonderful Wednesday share is from Jodie who writes at Autism with Lots of Love and Affection  and is about the difficulties in getting and having an ADHD diagnosis accepted. It was published on the Huffington Post.

WonderfulWednesday: My son communicates with @googlemaps via @gwynnemiriam

This week's wonderful Wednesday share comes to us via Autism Speaks and is an article from Miriam Gwynne who writes at Faith Mummy. She shares a wonderful moment when she realised her son was using google maps to communicate.

WonderfulWednesday: Welcoming an autistic guest at Christmas by @mumsomeone

This week's wonderful Wednesday share is from my #SpectrumSunday co-host, Danielle at Someone's Mum.  She's written this really helpful post about helping autistic children during Christmas.