Key areas of difficulty for young people with Dyslexia:
- Difficulties copying from the board.
- Difficulties writing assignments.
- Missing out information when listening to instructions.
- Spelling mistakes in written work.
- Slower reading information.
- Difficulties taking down notes.
- New vocabulary to understand in the different subject areas.
Key areas of difficulty for young people with Dyspraxia:
- Slower writing notes and keeping up in class with peers.
- Difficult for others to read writing.
- Slower to change for PE, such as doing up laces and buttons.
- Harder to participate in team based ball sports.
- Difficulties organising self and activities.
- Difficulties with time concepts.
- Harder to use protractors, scissors, rulers and other tools needing good motor control.
- Harder to draw maps, drawings, painting.
- Difficulty packing bags, filing notes.
Key areas of difficulty for young people with ADHD:
- Organisational skills such as packing bags, getting around school, and making appropriate decisions.
- Impulsivity may show up in difficulties knowing which place to be in at the correct time; the need to know when to answer and not answer out of turn in class; getting into trouble for taking unnecessary risks and only thinking of the consequences afterwards.
- Poor concentration which shows as difficulty completing tasks and or assignments; drifting off in class.
- Poor time management seen as difficulties completing assignments in time; getting to places on time, or answering all the questions in a given time frame; understanding how much time a task will take to be finished.
Key areas of difficulty for young people with ASD:
- Making and keeping friends.
- Understanding social rules such as how to speak to teachers.
- Recognising other's facial expressions and feelings.
- Coping with change and being adaptable and flexible. E.g coping with a different teacher’s way of teaching.
- Misunderstanding what has been said and taking instructions literally.
- The child may have difficulties expressing themselves clearly.
- Coping in the playground without clear rules.
- May find noisy situations harder such as in the canteen.
- May also have co-ordination difficulties.
- May misunderstand rules of games being played and take rules literally in their interpretation.
Key areas of difficulty for young people with speech, language and communication disorders:
- Difficulty remembering a sequence of instructions.
- Difficulty taking down telephone numbers or instructions.
- May appear anxious/angry as he/she does not understand what is being asked of her/him.
- May seem withdrawn.
- Difficulty taking turn in class.
- Not understanding the rules of a game.
- May find it easier to complete tasks with written instructions.
- May prefer to lead play rather than be led, so that he/she will know what is going on.
- Difficulties with mathematics as more language is being used in problems.
Key areas of difficulty for young people with Dyscalculia:
- May find difficulties with geometry.
- Difficulties learning times tables.
- May have difficulties with the “language of mathematics”, understanding maths terminology.
- Difficulties recording numbers accurately.
This website contains useful information, games and adaptable downloads to help children learn essential skills for a successful transition to secondary school, for example....
- Navigating around a new school
- Coping in a busy canteen
- Coping when angry
- Being organised
- Remembering teacher names
- Reading timetables
- Packing the correct equipment for school
- Managing homework
- Dealing with bullying
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