Many pupils experience learning difficulties, to varying degrees, during their time at school. Learning difficulties are neurological disorders that can make it difficult to acquire certain academic and social skills. These learning difficulties may be described as specific, moderate or severe learning difficulties.
Many pupils experience learning difficulties, to varying degrees, during their time at school. Learning difficulties are neurological disorders that can make it difficult to acquire certain academic and social skills. They include Specific Learning Difficulties and Moderate Learning Difficulties.
Specific Learning Difficulties (or SpLDs), affect the way information is learnt and processed. SpLDs are neurological, usually run in families, and occur independently of intelligence. They have a significant impact on learning especially the acquisition of literacy and numeracy skills. SpLDs include dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, and dyspraxia.
Moderate learning difficulties (or MLD), like SpLDs are neurological and affect the way information is learnt and processed, however a pupil with MLD will have a much greater difficulty in acquiring basic literacy and numeracy skills and in understanding concepts.
The child with Specific learning difficulties (SpLD) can be difficult to identify within a classroom as they can be articulate and intelligent. A child may have difficulties within Literacy (Dyslexia) or within Numeracy (dyscalculia) or a combination of both. A specialist teacher can help in the identification of these children and enable the implementation of a specific support package which can help to overcome difficulties within the classroom. SpLD covers such a wide range of difficulties that sometimes it is difficult to know what is best for an individual pupil. That is why a specialist in SpLD provision is pivotal. With appropriate intervention a pupil can become less frustrated, there can be improvements in their self-esteem and confidence, this can lead to improvements in behaviour.
An Inclusion Solutions specialist SpLD teacher can:
Children with Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD) are increasingly educated within mainstream primary schools. They experience difficulties with following the curriculum and a significant amount of differentiation is usually required. An Inclusion Solutions teacher for pupils with MLD can help a school with the planning and structuring this differentiated work. They can provide advice, in depth assessments, and targeted plans, to ensure that the intervention recommended is specific to the individual needs of the pupil. They can provide one to one teaching, small group activities, and advice and training for all school staff.
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