Cognition and learning

Children may have difficulties in one or more of the following ares;

- Language, memory and reasoning skills

- Sequencing and organisation skills

- Understanding number

- Problem solving and concept development skills

- Fine and gross motor skills

- Independent learning skills

- Exercising choice/ decision making

- Information processing

Children may have specific learning difficulties such as: dyslexia, dyspraxia or dysgraphia. 

- Break learning down into smaller steps

- Model what the child needs to do 

- Provide short breaks between tasks

- Use of scaffolds to support tasks e.g. writing frames, prompt cards, word lists, visual prompts etc. 

- Check understanding by getting children to repeat back what has been said and asked of them

- Allow alternative ways to present work

- Hand gym

- 1:1 reading

- Touch typing 

- RAMP provision

- Phonics intervention

- FFT style 1:1

- Rapid reader intervention 1:1

- Reading peer mentoring

- Spelling peer mentoring