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Someone to turn to
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(SEN articles)
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... establish a relationship with whom they can trust. The scheme has been quite hard to manage, with some of the pupils lacking self-management and literacy skills. This has resulted in the co-ordinator ...
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Created on 17 January 2012
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A sporting chance
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(SEN articles)
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... was based around the goals of increasing fitness levels in both students and staff and encouraging learning in a wide range of subject areas, such as literacy and numeracy, through high-quality physical ...
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Created on 06 January 2012
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3.
Focus on speech and language therapists
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(SEN articles)
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... discussion of how speech and language problems affect key learning areas, for example, how some speech sound difficulties affect literacy development. Therapy programmes are then formulated and management ...
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Created on 05 January 2012
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4.
Schools are failing deaf children
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(SEN news)
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... (NDCS) has warned that deaf children are at risk of being left behind in the Government’s literacy and numeracy drive, blaming a lack of specialist support in schools for these poor levels of achievement. ...
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Created on 21 December 2011
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5.
Practically literate
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(SEN articles)
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Priya Desai shows how ideas from speech and language therapy can be used to help those struggling with literacy Many children with literacy difficulties or a diagnosis of dyslexia have associated ...
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Created on 05 December 2011
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6.
A profound challenge
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(SEN articles)
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... curriculum perspective in favour of a developmental perspective. Schools are not driven by literacy, numeracy, science, geography and French but by early thinking, communication, self help skills, social ...
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Created on 01 December 2011
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Behaviour: putting theory into practice
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(SEN articles)
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... powerful intervention tools. This can be developed through emotional literacy. It can be applied to an individual, classroom and whole school context through developing awareness of self and others, developing ...
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Created on 01 December 2011
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Are we waiting for children with dyslexia to fail?
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(SEN articles)
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... language and literacy. Teachers working within the framework were expected to track pupils’ progress through a series of developmental phonic phases. Each phase was quantified by a number of phonic-related ...
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Created on 29 November 2011
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Dyslexia: more than just a label?
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(SEN articles)
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... levels in literacy, and 20 per cent of 16- to 19-year-olds are leaving education functionally illiterate. If you cannot learn to read, you cannot read to learn, and too many children are unable to access ...
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Created on 25 November 2011
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10.
Can teachers recognise SEN in bright pupils?
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(SEN articles)
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... for Luca, and eventually, after I insisted, a literacy software programme for Giorgio. However, when you don't know why a child is experiencing problems in the first place, it's difficult to put the right ...
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Created on 21 November 2011
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Asperger's and the route to work
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(SEN articles)
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... qualification in professional cooking, in addition to one in computer literacy and information technology and a Level 1 in adult numeracy. When a vacancy arose for paid employment within a professional ...
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Created on 15 November 2011
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12.
Coming to terms with dyslexia
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(SEN articles)
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... simple tasks of literacy and numeracy that many of his/her less gifted peers find easy. Your child is not normal; he/she is dyslexic. Nature has torn up the rule-book and from here on in life is going ...
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Created on 27 October 2011
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13.
Autism: trauma in the classroom
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(SEN articles)
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... so his fear of putting pen to paper has diminished, and the outbursts that used to accompany literacy problems have ceased. The rules have been relaxed in order to take account of Callum's idiosyncratic ...
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Created on 21 October 2011
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14.
Noise annoys: are classrooms too loud?
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(SEN articles)
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... this. Is it so surprising, then, that a shocking 80 per cent of those identified as having significant communication or literacy difficulties in primary school, still have significant difficulties at secondary ...
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Created on 21 October 2011
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15.
Developing skills through the SEN curriculum
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(SEN articles)
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... teaching of skills into every subject. The more recent review, led by Sir Jim Rose, proposes at Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 that essential skills for learning and life (which include literacy, numeracy ...
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Created on 08 October 2011
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16.
Adoption: a mother's story
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(SEN articles)
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... did a local communities course and an IT course. In addition, he has taken NVQ Level 1 in catering, computers, literacy and many other subjects. Ian also does a work placement in catering which he thoroughly ...
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Created on 08 October 2011
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17.
Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration
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(SEN articles)
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... him, to see for myself how this way of working operated. The first session I observed was speech and language. Ryan is working on his literacy skills using the Reading Reflex scheme, and his speech and ...
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Created on 08 October 2011
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18.
Handwriting matters: teaching handwriting to dyslexic pupils
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(SEN articles)
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... to try those things when children are relaxing at home, school is a learning environment and good habits should start early. Naomi finds literacy easy; she is pleased with and proud of her achievements. ...
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Created on 04 October 2011
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Teaching foreign languages to pupils with SEN
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(SEN articles)
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... or Spanish lessons, instead of “remedial” teachers withdrawing them to individual or small-group literacy and numeracy development classes. In the early 1990s, several projects successfully piloted language ...
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Created on 04 October 2011
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20.
Semantic pragmatic disorder: the reality behind the label
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(SEN articles)
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... is very suitable for children with SPD. In literacy, although we cannot teach every metaphor that exists, we can help children understand that language is not always what it seems, and help children pre-prepare ...
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Created on 26 September 2011
