SLD Fact Sheets and other articles
GENERAL SLD INFORMATION
Choosing the right intervention for your child
Questions to ask before signing up
Specific Learning Difficulties
A definition
Recognising the Strengths of ‘LD’ individuals
A list of characteristics found to be characteristic of many individuals labelled as ‘learning disabled’
The Role of a Speech Pathologist
Lauren Reinhardt discusses the role of a Speech Pathologist.
The Role of a Behavioural Optometrist
Mark Falkenstein discusses the role of a Behavioural Optometrist in relation to vision and learning, managing learning related vision problems, vision and reading, comprehensive behavioural visual examinations and vision therapy.
The Role of an Educational Psychologist
Ernst Meyer discusses the role of an Educational Psychologist
Study Skills for Students
Tips for Students - adapted, with kind permission, from the Dyslexia Institute, England.
Biofeedback Video Games
Biofeedback Video Games to teach ADHD children relaxation skills to help manage symptoms.
ADHD in schools
ADHD in schools "Supporting strategies for Teachers".
Summary of Assessment Chart
Parents and teachers often ask what kinds of assessments should be done to determin the cause of a child's learning difficulties. Here is a flow chart showing the most appropriate things to look at.
NUMERACY
Board Games
Using commercial board games for practising basic counting, addition and subtraction strategies.
Teaching addition facts – Using ‘Double-Up’ Strategy
Students with specific learning difficulties, who often have trouble memorising the basic facts, can be helped by being introduced to two strategies based on identifying and using the addition doubles to help them calculate some of the harder facts quickly.
Trading Games
Trading games are very valuable games in helping students understand our numeration system.
READING
Developing Phonemic Awareness
Educational research in the past twenty years has identified that one of the principal barriers to learning to read and spell effectively is lack of phonemic awareness.
What Works and What Doesn't
What works and what doesn't for High School students with reading difficulties. Review by Dr. Paul Whiting.
An Alternative way to teach adults
An Alternative way to teach adults with non-functioning literacy.
DYSLEXIA - SPECIFIC
How Can I Help The Dyslexic Pupils While I Teach Everyone?
Adapted, with kind permission, from the Dyslexia Institute, England
EARLY CHILDHOOD – SPECIFIC
Typical Developmental Milestones in Early Childhood
List of motor and speech and language achievements which predictably emerge within expected age ranges and underpin the term ‘developmentally, or age appropriate.
Assessment in Early Childhood
Screening for Visual and auditory processing difficulties.
SLD related VIDEO CLIPS on YouTube
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