Can.Do. Specialist Tutoring Service (SpLDs)

MISSION STATEMENT

From screening and diagnostic assessment to successful intervention and effective teaching strategies combined with liaison with fellow professionsals, whatever is required to help each and every learner, infant to adult, early years to workplace - become more successful and independent learners, we will seek to provide.

We are all trained in specific learning difficulties, especially Dylsexia, although we specialise in all learning difficulties such as Apserger Syndrome, Adhd and have training and experience in Dyspraxia, Dyscalculia and Speech and Language Difficulties. We also appreciate that many learners have learning difficulties that are co-occurring with others.

Via a free initial consultation with the learner we will be able to screen and diagnose difficulties, suggest suitable teaching strategies or refer to other professionsals or simply offer advice. This is why this first consultation is free of charge - so that the next course of action is discussed without undue stress and free of any pressure on the learners, parents, family or loved ones.

We have a learner-centred approach and believe on basing our teaching and diagnosis of learning profiles on what has been learnt already, individual skills and strengths and by identifying different learning styles. All learners are unique! We believe in using strengths to overcome weaknesses and that learners are encouraged to reach their potential. We believe all learners can if they do what is required.

We have worked in primary, secondary and tertiary education and are available for consultation in workplace assessment and advice also. We have also been accredited to assess for Disabled Student Allowance as well as for JCQ extra examination time and other concessions.

Tuesday 26 January 2010

Something New in the World of Specialist Tutoring

Free website - Wix.com

For those of us who prefer to take in information more visually, which includes most learners with specific learning difficulties, please find another one of our websites which contains alot of the information in this blog but is presented in a more immediate, easier-to-access (for some) style. Learners with Aspergers and ADHD will appreciate the sliding carousel-type visual representation of information and link betwen different pages.
We will be working towards other websites which will eventually have text help-type, reading aloud of information as well as a capability for changing the background colour of the screen and the font size also. An example of this can be seen on a learning difficulies site "WhatstheDiffernce?" that one of our tutors developed with a teaching colleague, Mr Stacey, at Olchfa Comprehensive which clearly illustrates these helpful facilities.
We would urge you to check out this site as it contains a host of information on various areas of learning difficulties including teaching and TA tips as well as a Parenting Special Needs section which seeks to cover all the areas a parent needs to know in relation to special educational needs. Please leave a comment on how to improve that, this or any other of our sites - that is how we learn how to improve our service to you.

www.olchfa.org.uk/whatsthedifference

The service we offer learners.

The service is split into initial and ongoing assessments of learning strengths, difficulties and styles and teaching programmes which are tailored towards this learning profile.

We will often use a positive multi-sensory teaching programme which has been advocated by many respected dyslexia specialists as being the best way to teach pupils with specific learning difficulties, particulary Dyslexia. We feel that Literacy and Numeracy, in particular, have to be taught in a different way in relation to pupils with learning difficulties to be effective.

Screening and Diagnostic Assessment

During our initial meeting we will look at whatever types of assessment have been carried out by either teachers, informally through class observation or formally through screening assessments, or diagnostic assessments by an Educational Psychologists before deciding how to proceed. We can carry out a wide range of screening asessments, to look at various areas of cognitive abilities and skills before either using them with other previous assessments or as our foundation for further teaching intervention. By intervention, we simply mean taking particular interest to certain areas of learning difficulty and deciding how we are all going to improve these areas and educational performance generally. We means, parents as well as learners, and other learning assistants such as teaching assistants in school and teachers. Anyone with an input into the learner's learning. It is important that the learning plan is as integrated as possible with everyone involved following the same direction to ensure the greatest success.

Raising self esteem - Check out this link www.olchfa.org.uk/whatsthedifference/?p=196

We firmly believe that a proper assessment and the right teaching strategies should be allied with and, in fact, aid the raising of self-esteem. We have found that improving self-concept is essential to enabling learners to improve and become more independent. We will encourage leaners to think and act on their own awareness about their learning strategies and also counsel those who have had negative experiences of school and the learning process.

While working in a secondary school setting, one of our tutors decided the best way to raise awareness of learning difficulties while simultaneously raising awareness of those with learning difficulties in the class was to collaboratively write, direct and produce a play with the class! This was then performed to over 250 pupils and teachers at Year assembly.
Whatever technique or approach works!

Can.Do. Specialist Tutoring Service (SpLDs)

MISSION STATEMENT

Dyslexia

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Tuesday 26 January 2010

Something New in the World of Specialist Tutoring

Achieving a dyslexia friendly classroom

ADHD and other LDs

Speech and Language Difficulties

Developmental Co-Ordination Disorder

whatsthedifference?

The service we offer learners.

Screening and Diagnostic Assessment

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Multi-Sensory Teaching

Raising self esteem - Check out this link www.olchfa.org.uk/whatsthedifference/?p=196

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