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Fighting ignorance: SEN in Bangladesh
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(SEN articles)
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... with disabilities, the following schools target children with specific needs:
Schools for the blind and visually impaired There are four schools for the blind, located in 4 Divisions of the country. ...
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Created on 30 January 2012
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Switched on to education
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(SEN articles)
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... their individual learning styles. Ultimately, the introduction of interactive toys, software and visual aids has improved learning outcomes for a large number of children, especially those who are visual ...
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Created on 19 January 2012
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3.
Inside the autistic mind
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(SEN articles)
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... example, his favourite number is fourteen and vivid blue; C is number two, mid-green and sponge-like in texture; M is eight, brown and Callum visualises himself sitting on a rock, while he experiences ...
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Created on 09 January 2012
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How diagnosis can bring real relief for parents
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(SEN articles)
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... did not babble as a baby and we put his late talking down to him having two older sisters whom he was content to follow around. He appeared to have good visual memory and developed this as a coping strategy ...
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Created on 09 January 2012
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5.
Not listening or not hearing?
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(SEN articles)
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... strategies that can be employed to help children with communication problems. For example, teachers can:
provide a visual back-up (on the board or as a prompt sheet)
pre-teach specific vocabulary ...
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Created on 05 January 2012
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6.
Great expectations
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(SEN articles)
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... processing speed • planning and organisation • attention and concentration • spatial awareness and visual perception • language ...
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Created on 21 December 2011
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7.
Knowing the mind
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(SEN articles)
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... our students gravitate towards supports that are external and tangible (such as crystals as a tactile support and candles as a visual support) in preference to supports that are more subtle and centring ...
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Created on 21 December 2011
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8.
Practically literate
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(SEN articles)
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... 6) the colour and 7) the initial sound of the word. This structure can be adapted as necessary helping children visualise words as an aid to focusing on a vocabulary topic. This process accesses and uses ...
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Created on 05 December 2011
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9.
Behaviour: putting theory into practice
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(SEN articles)
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... It is important to maintain a sense of structure in a lesson by providing students with small tasks and defining the success criteria. Instructions should be clear and unconfused, using pictorial/visual ...
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Created on 01 December 2011
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10.
Injury time: understanding childhood brain trauma
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(SEN articles)
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... not understanding jokes and not understanding the unwritten rules of social interactions perceptual difficulties – visual difficulties can occur as a result of an ABI, and may even go undetected for some ...
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Created on 21 November 2011
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How to manage Tourette's in the classroom
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(SEN articles)
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... the use of scribes, rulers, laptops, visual timers, grid paper, calculators, organisers and visual diaries. Such aids can be very supportive greater emphasis on effort over presentation in written work. ...
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Created on 16 November 2011
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12.
Dyslexia: the plastic brain and beyond
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(SEN articles)
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... in front of the eyes. Certainly, some dyslexics have great difficulty visually focusing on words, and Stein’s experiments show that wearing coloured glasses can have an almost immediate remedial effect. ...
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Created on 10 November 2011
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13.
Enriching student learning beyond the school gates
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(SEN articles)
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... school for children and young people with visual impairments and multiple disabilities, got up to when they visited the New Forest on a field trip in June last year. Despite being away from their normal ...
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Created on 02 November 2011
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14.
What is autism? A personal view
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(SEN articles)
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... hierarchy. The information carried along these channels is open to distortion, with the visual and auditory senses most susceptible, although all of the senses could be distorted in people with autism ...
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Created on 24 October 2011
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15.
Let's get physical! Exercise and autism
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(SEN articles)
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... where everyone is doing something different could also be disorientating. She found logos on coaches' clothes to be a complete visual nightmare. She also mentioned feeling patronised, as an adult, if the ...
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Created on 24 October 2011
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16.
Living the dream: the history of wheelchair sport
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(SEN articles)
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... events for amputees and visually impaired athletes were held for the first time. Some nations withdrew due to apartheid South Africa 's participation, yet the number of athletes competing grew to 1,657. ...
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Created on 21 October 2011
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17.
Noise annoys: are classrooms too loud?
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(SEN articles)
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... auditory and visual abilities at school entry, and reducing all class sizes, are unlikely to become reality for decades, there are simple ways we can help now. Children should be encouraged to let us know ...
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Created on 21 October 2011
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Handwriting matters: teaching handwriting to dyslexic pupils
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(SEN articles)
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... no consistency in the teaching of a handwriting style and, secondly, because a cursive hand is so easy to teach to all children. Children with dyslexia often experience spatial, co-ordination, visual ...
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Created on 04 October 2011
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How does autism affect behaviour?
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(SEN articles)
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... visual support (for example, visual timetables), social stories, achievable and realistic goals, additional support within the classroom setting, structured play activities, circles of friends, Handwriting ...
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Created on 30 September 2011
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20.
How to spot the signs of abuse
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(SEN articles)
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... reinforced. Deaf children and children with learning disabilities are likely to require a range of visual materials that they can relate to, including information delivered by deaf or disabled young people, ...
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Created on 30 September 2011
