Neurodiversity in Learners
Nuerodiversity refers to students who have or display symptoms of ADHD, ASD, Dyscalculia, Dyslexia, and Speech Disorders. They effect Cognitive processing and therefore Executive functioning is impaired. In order to ensure we have access to all the things we want to use/do. (People hours, tools, learning etc) we need to make sure we are collating our PLPs well so that we can show all our needs. Any level of adjustment gets funding and we no longer need a diagnosis for that funding to be put in place. When talking to parents sometimes it's hard to know how to say that their child will not directly access their allocated '2 hours' or however it has been stated in the medical feild. Instead say: 'Our school already allocates extra people per grade to account for all of our diverse learners. We can definitely look at other things that they can access at our school from now on that is different to what they already recieve." Time will be given in staff meetings to up