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Dyslexia and SpLD Transitional issues in Secondary Education Helen Donovan and Anne Rees
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Dyslexia and SpLD Transition Issues in Secondary Education
Helen Donovan
Anne Rees
Transition
• Introduction
• Key themes
• Key messages
Who are we talking about?
• Young people with SpLD, focus on
dyslexia
– particularly vulnerable to pressures in
secondary education
– Co-occurring difficulties can exacerbate
difficulties (e.g. DCD, ASD, ADHD, SLI)
What are we talking about?
• Fulfilling potential
• Identifying transition points
Year 7
Year 10
Year 12
http://www.spldtransitions.co.uk
Key themes
• Individual factors
• Accessing the curriculum
Individual factors
Individual factors
• Metacognition
• Dealing with social, emotional and
physical factors
– Mentoring /pastoral
• Organisation
Metacognition
• Thinking about thinking
• Understanding own knowledge state
• Reflecting
• Mindful learning
Social, emotional, physical
pressures
• confidence/ self-esteem
• peer pressure
• adolescence
• behaviour
Organisation
• Work
• Timetable/timekeeping
• Navigating around school
Accessing the curriculum
Accessing the curriculum
• Language
• Literacy
• Curriculum
Language
• Receptive
• Expressive
• Subject-specific
Mean…
• What does this mean?
• Don’t be so mean!
• Find the mean of ….
Expressive language
How does someone write like a 15
year old…..
…if they’re reading like a 10 year
old?
Curriculum/academic
• Identify potential difficulties
• EAA
• Increasing academic demands
• Independent learning
• ‘Learned helplessness’
Year 7 screening for ‘hidden’
difficulties
• Working memory – digit span
• Verbal processing speed - rapid
naming
Embedding exam access
arrangements
Year 7
• Screening
• Trial EAAs
• Collect evidence of need
Year 8
• Trial EAAs
• Collect evidence of need
Year 9
• Assess reading, spelling, writing speed, working memory. processing speed
• Collect evidence of need
Year 10/11
• Apply for EAA
• Implement EAA
Year 12/13
• Re-assess
• Apply for EAA
• DSA?
Learned helplessness
• Become over-dependent on helpers
• Learning not viewed as their own
responsibility
So…
• Develop independence using assistive
technology
• load2learn
Literacy
• greatly increased demands for reading
and writing
• quality
• higher order skills
• adapting writing style
• flexible reading skills
Key messages
• Transition spectrum
• Baseline testing to include ‘hidden difficulties’ – working memory and verbal processing speed
• Embedding access arrangements Yr 7
• Metacognition
Thanks for listening, we’d
welcome your comments
Helen Donovan: [email protected]
Anne Rees: [email protected]