The starting point has to be an assessment of the person’s strengths and weaknesses in order to provide the right sort of guidance/support .
The teaching may also need to focus on one or more of the following:
- Confidence and Self-esteem.
- Mathematics.
- Memory Aids.
- Personal Organisation.
- Study Skills and Examination Techniques.
- Use of Technology.
- Motor Co-ordination.
- Social Confidence.
- Anger Management.
- Sensory Integration.
- Other issues.
Who Does The Assessment?
The Centre is run by Linda Falkner, a fully qualified and experienced Chartered Educational Psychologist with a wide range of experience across all age groups. She also has access to an Occupational Therapist with a Specialist Dyslexia Teaching qualification who specialises in sensory processing difficulties and Therapeutic Listening, a Speech and Language Therapist who specializes in Early Years, Autism and Specific Learning Difficulties/Dyslexia and Specialist Dyslexia Teachers, who all have nationally recognised qualifications in Dyslexia.
Several different types of assessment are available to meet individual needs, providing a multi-disciplinary approach. Please see Assessment choices.
Who Does The Teaching?
Again several different options are available to meet individual needs. These include:
- A Specialist Teacher doing the teaching directly on a weekly basis (but please bear in mind that there are a shortage of suitably qualified Specialist Teachers locally).
- A parent/ relative/friend/Teaching Assistant following an individually tailored 6 week (half-term) teaching programme supervised by the Centre. (To be reviewed and updated after each block). We are offering both ‘School-based’ and ‘Home based’ programmes, in this respect.
- Non-Specialist Teachers/Experienced TAs developing their own programmes with the benefit of training courses provided by the Centre.
- Parents developing their own programmes with the benefit of training courses provided by the Centre.
- The Centre providing a range of specialised courses for children and adults to develop their meta-cognitive skills (learning how to learn effectively).
Where?
The choice is yours - at home or at school, depending on individual needs and the permission of the school.
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