Neurodiversity in Learners

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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 update PLPs as it is time consuming. There will also be new guidelines to help with any changes in the process. 

A key thing to remember when thinking about how to use the learning leaders in our team (because that is where a lot of our support funding goes) include:



 

There is a video of different ways to use co-teaching models too. 
This is great to help you think about what you could do. :)


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