September 20, 2024
As an assessor on a postgraduate training course for those wanting to become exam access arrangements (EAA) assessors, I would say I am pretty well-placed to support SENCOs and exams officers to ensure their EAA paperwork is fully up-to-scratch. Spending a couple of hours in school as an ‘extra pair of eyes’, checking applications are
August 27, 2024
As an assessor, I spend a fair bit of time administering tests to explore students’ working memory capacity…could be when I’m doing a diagnostic dyslexia assessment, could be when I’m establishing the need for exam access arrangements. But what exactly is working memory and why is it so important for learning? After chatting it through
May 22, 2024
Dyslexia is a well-known specific learning difficulty that affects how individuals read, write, and spell…amongst other things, before anyone contacts me!! Given that early identification and intervention are crucial for supporting children with literacy difficulties and helping them thrive academically and emotionally, it is important that teachers and parents/carers are aware of some of the
April 12, 2024
Before I start this blog, I want to make it clear that I am 100% not the sort of person that does anything just for the sake of it. And that includes SEND case studies. Schools are particularly well-versed in self-monitoring and evaluating their own practice. To put it bluntly, it is without doubt the only
February 21, 2024
I’m pretty sure that if I did a straw poll of Joe Public – and even staff working in schools – the vast majority would be able to tell me some of the typical characteristics of a child or young person with dyslexia…but would they know anything about dyspraxia, or – to give it its
November 24, 2023
Recently, a fellow specialist teacher, on one of the professional FB groups I belong to, posted about the dangers of using diagnostic labels within the field of special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). Needless to say, this ignited the flame of heated debate and elicited some very strong opinions! I have to admit that, over the
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