Some of London’s most deprived children will be damaged further by being struck off the special needs list, a leading headteacher warned today. Children who act as carers, those who are homeless or whose parents have died could lose out on extra support, Jo Shuter, head of Quintin Kynaston school in St John’s Wood, claimed. [...]
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Archive | Learning difficulties
Warning over special needs children – Evening Standard
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Posted in At School, Autism, Dyslexia, Family, Finance, Learning, Learning difficulties, Special Needs0 Comments
Fury at plan to cut support for special-needs children – Education News – Education – The Independent
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Charities, teachers’ leaders and campaigners yesterday condemned plans that could remove thousands of children from the special-needs register. Ministers have announced a series of reforms in the belief that too many children at schools in England have been wrongly labelled as having special educational needs (SEN). There will be a new single category of SEN [...]
Posted in At School, Autism, Dyslexia, Family, Finance, Learning, Learning difficulties, Special Needs0 Comments
The special needs system is open to abuse | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Plans to change the “special needs” system in schools will have a big impact upon teachers like me, as well as millions of pupils and their parents. That said, the system does need an overhaul. Far too many pupils are judged as having “special educational needs” (SEN). Last year, an Ofsted investigation found that one [...]
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Thousands to be struck off special needs list – Telegraph
Posted on 16 May 2012.
Under the biggest shake-up of the system for 30 years, ministers will toughen up rules on the diagnosis of behavioural and learning problems. It follows concerns that schools are abusing the system to disguise poor teaching and climb league tables. For the first time, rigorous screening measures will be introduced to prevent pupils from being classed [...]
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Poor pupil cash will not be ring-fenced – The Independent
Posted on 16 May 2012.
The Government will not ring-fence the £2.5bn a year to be handed to schools for the most disadvantaged pupils to ensure all of it is spent on them, Nick Clegg admitted yesterday. The Deputy Prime Minister said it would be wrong to “micro-manage” every school from Whitehall by dictating how money allocated under his “pupil premium” scheme [...]
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Up to 450,000 children to lose their extra help for special needs – Education News – Education – The Independent
Posted on 15 May 2012.
As many as 450,000 children could be removed from school special needs registers because they have been wrongly labelled as requiring extra help, the Government will announce today. Campaigners fear the cuts could leave thousands of children “cut adrift”. One in five schoolchildren in England is on the register. The rules are designed to toughen [...]
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Parents to control special education needs budgets | The Guardian
Posted on 15 May 2012.
Parents in England are to be given control over their children’s special educational needs (SEN) budgets, allowing them to choose expert support rather than local authorities being the sole provider. In what the government described as the biggest reform of SEN for 30 years, the measures will also legally force education, health and social care [...]
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Can 20 per cent of schoolchildren really have special needs? – Telegraph
Posted on 15 May 2012.
The primary school was in Surrey, the head teacher recalls, but its catchment area was far removed from the affluent image enjoyed by much of the county. Among the four-year-olds joining the reception class, she had several who had not been toilet-trained. She put it down to inadequate parenting and sent them home until they [...]
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Bad diets and late bedtimes: Experts blame poor parenting ‘for surge in special needs’ | Mail Online
Posted on 07 May 2012.
Poor parenting and weak teaching are driving a rise in the number of children labelled as having special needs, it was claimed yesterday. Many diagnosed as having behavioural problems have simply been brought up with ‘very few books, very poor diet and very late bedtimes’, experts said. It was also claimed that schools were labelling [...]
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Special needs ‘used as a cover for poor parenting’ – Telegraph
Posted on 07 May 2012.
Pupils as young as four are regularly being labelled with behavioural problems and learning difficulties as an excuse for a bad upbringing, it was claimed. Almost 1.7m schoolchildren in England – more than one-in-five – currently have some form of special educational needs requiring particular attention from teachers. In some schools, more than half of [...]
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Increasing the social mix in schools is the way to close performance gaps | guardian.co.uk
Posted on 19 April 2012.
Three-quarters of variations in British schools’ performance is explained by differences in socio-economic background of its students. Photograph: Rex Features Nick Clegg is reported to be planning to set targets for schools to narrow the performance gap between disadvantaged children and other pupils as a way of promoting social mobility. He is right to identify [...]
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Louis Theroux: making a documentary about children with autism was ‘a baptism by fire’ – Telegraph
Posted on 19 April 2012.
Louis Theroux explains why he’s as proud of his new series – on the demented elderly and autistic young – as anything he’s ever done. Over the past 15 years, I’ve carved out a niche for myself as a maker of documentaries about people whose choices in life seem odd, offbeat or at the very [...]
Posted in At School, Autism, Kids, Learning, Learning difficulties, Media and Celebrity, Special Needs, Time Out, TV, Theatre and Film, Tweens and TeensComments Off
BBC News – Louis Theroux on autism: The school with more teachers than students
Posted on 19 April 2012.
Louis Theroux on autism: The school with more teachers than students With autism diagnoses rising more and more parents are plunged into a battle to understand the condition and find their child the right treatment, writes Louis Theroux. Joey Morales-Ward is a 13-year-old kid who lives in suburban New Jersey. He likes playing on his [...]
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BBC News – Education system failing children with autism
Posted on 19 April 2012.
The National Autistic Society Northern Ireland (NAS NI) said failings in the education system are letting down children. It wants MLAs to consider the needs of children with autism as they debate the reforms to the Special Educational Needs (SEN) system. The charity is launching the A* for Autism campaign on SEN, to highlight the [...]
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Schools to get targets for helping disadvantaged pupils’ performance | Education | The Guardian
Posted on 18 April 2012.
Schools to get targets for helping disadvantaged pupils’ performance Nick Clegg to argue for schools to be accountable for spending of pupil premium as part of social mobility strategy Share 54 Patrick Wintour, political editor guardian.co.uk, Friday 13 April 2012 19.43 BST Article history Nick Clegg’s proposed targets will tackle the education attainment gap between [...]
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Optilexia: Why Many Bright Children Struggle to Read and Spell
Posted on 01 March 2012.
The Problem With Synthetic Phonics systems in place in most classrooms, many more children are picking up basic skills like reading and spelling with relative ease. However, 20% of children reach age 11 and are still not able to pass a reading test. Why? Children, like everyone, have different learning styles. We all naturally use [...]
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BBC News – Special educational needs: MPs shocked by teens’ plight
Posted on 24 February 2012.
MPs have expressed shock that almost a third of 18-year-olds with special educational needs are not in any form of education, employment or training. Too many young people are falling through the gaps once they leave school, the Commons Public Accounts Committee says. Its report finds the system is so complex that some families lose [...]
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SEN pupils ‘falling through gap’
Posted on 24 February 2012.
Many young people with face a “life-long legacy of lost opportunities” after falling through the gap when they leave school, a report warns. The influential Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said it was “shocking” that almost a third of young adults with a statement of special educational needs (SEN) at age 16 are not in [...]
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Quarter of children performing poorly due to problems at home, study finds | Society | The Guardian
Posted on 07 February 2012.
More than a quarter of children in the UK are not reaching their potential at school because of poor living conditions and unwell parents, a study has found. Researchers from the University of London’s Institute of Education and the University of Sussex analysed the intellectual development of 18,000 children between the ages of nine months [...]
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Keira Knightley: Sense and Sensibility screenplay helped me overcome dyslexia – Telegraph
Posted on 31 January 2012.
The 26-year-old said the only way she was able to get over her learning disability was by reading the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, and imagining what Thompson would do in her shoes. Knightley, who was diagnosed with dyslexia at the age of six, said she was a “huge fan” of the 52-year-old actress and [...]
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Brain scans could diagnose dyslexia in children before they even learn to read and head off difficulties at school | Mail Online
Posted on 24 January 2012.
Some children with dyslexia go undiagnosed for years, leading to prolonged learning difficulties and children who are angry and frustrated at school. But all that could be a thing of the past… Scientists now say they can identify the reading problem before children even start school, and long before they become labeled as poor students [...]
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Grades have dropped because students were out protesting
Posted on 02 January 2012.
Extraordinary excuse from Cambridge college chief
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India offers English stepping stone to east Asian students
Posted on 07 December 2011.
Conditions may be basic, but competitive prices and good standards of education are attracting many learners from east Asia who want to consolidate language before heading on
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South Korean parents told: pre-school English ‘harmful’
Posted on 09 November 2011.
Pressure group argues that money spent on early year classes is wasted and urges starting at age 10
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Donors need multilingual understanding
Posted on 09 November 2011.
Evidence of education failure among children denied teaching in their first languages should inform a new approach to development aid
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Girl without fingers learns to cross stitch
Posted on 05 November 2011.
A young Chinese girl learns how to create intricate cross stitch designs despite having lost her fingers in an accident.
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Bright pupils struggling with basic grammar, says top head
Posted on 05 November 2011.
One of Britain’s top private schools is introducing back-to-basics lessons in grammar amid fears that growing numbers of new pupils lack the most basic command of written English.
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Learning to drive at 11
Posted on 25 October 2011.
Underage driver training at Goodwood promotes good practice for when youngsters are finally able to drive on public roads.
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Big firms warn young jobless rate ‘to rise further’
Posted on 18 October 2011.
Record youth unemployment is set to rise even further this autumn, a survey of the UK’s biggest companies suggests.
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Native speaker still learning the language
Posted on 12 October 2011.
A newly qualified teacher from Britain is finding out that he doesn’t always have immediate answers for the complexities of English
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States linked in failure to provide trained teachers
Posted on 12 October 2011.
UK job seekers told: ‘Attend classes or lose benefits’; Malta schools warned against cutting prices; Teachers’ association seeks international reach
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Schoolboy’s try cost rugby club £54,000 in compensation
Posted on 06 October 2011.
A court’s decision to award £54,000 compensation to a schoolboy rugby player after he was injured by on-field debris has prompted calls for judges to “live in a realistic world”.
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Badly behaved pupils and parents put teachers off
Posted on 04 October 2011.
Survey by Guardian Teacher Network shows more than half of teachers have considered quitting profession
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Doubts raised over dyslexia diagnoses
Posted on 30 September 2011.
Dyslexia could be just a label, according to scientists, after a study of brain scans found there is little difference between the way children with the condition think while trying to read and those who simply have a low IQ.
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‘I was losing my children, I knew I had to get out and learn English’
Posted on 23 September 2011.
Moshoda Khatun was just 13 when her family married her off and she moved in with her husband and his parents at their Tower Hamlets flat. From that day, her English deteriorated dramatically as her attendance at school took a back seat to housekeeping duties.
Posted in At School, Books and Reading, Just Mums, Learning, Learning difficultiesComments Off
Children want to learn about the environment, survey finds
Posted on 20 September 2011.
Pupils would rather study green issues than traditional subjects such as science and history, data from the Co-operative shows
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Putting teaching – not the textook – first
Posted on 14 September 2011.
On a mission to match the sometimes disparate needs of students and their university
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Teacher trainers transcend conflicts to share skills
Posted on 14 September 2011.
English language teaching practitioners from Europe to central Asia find common ground
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Sir Richard Branson has a mentoring mantra for today’s youth
Posted on 13 September 2011.
Sir Richard Branson is the ultimate rainmaker. Here is a man who has gone from making a student magazine in the undercroft of a church to having a £2.5bn global empire covering everything from airlines to health clubs to trains.
Posted in Dyslexia, Internet Kids, Learning difficulties, Random articles1 Comment
Early learning or a case of too much, too young?
Posted on 26 August 2011.
From next year, the Government wants under-fives to follow a slimmed-down curriculum. But its plans also involve checks that childcare experts have dubbed ‘tests for tots’.
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Student finances: what you need to know
Posted on 19 August 2011.
From taxes to TV licences (yes, even if you don’t have a telly): Harriet Swain looks at the things you simply need to know
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The secrets to staying happy after your child heads off to university
Posted on 18 August 2011.
Everything changes when a student leaves home – but it’s not always for the worse, says Kate Hilpern
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Dyslexia makes voices hard to discern, study finds
Posted on 03 August 2011.
People with dyslexia struggle to recognise familiar voices, scientists suggest.
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Fine art scholar Jarvis: tuition fees would have killed off Pulp
Posted on 22 July 2011.
Jarvis Cocker said that if higher university tuition fees had been around in the Eighties, he would not have gone to college or found success with his band Pulp.
Posted in Learning, Learning difficulties, Tutoring, University and Gap yearComments Off
Phonics test sounds phoney
Posted on 12 July 2011.
There’s more to reading than sounding out letters
Posted in At School, Books and Reading, Learning, Learning difficultiesComments Off
Dyslexic boy, 16, hanged himself ‘after bullying by teachers at his primary school eight years earlier’
Posted on 10 July 2011.
A dyslexic boy hanged himself and said in a note that it was because he had been bullied by primary school teachers eight years earlier.
Posted in At School, Dyslexia, Just for Dads, Learning difficulties, Parents, Teachers, Tweens and TeensComments Off
Pupil’s game helps with English grammar teaching
Posted on 28 June 2011.
A pupil from Peterborough has created a game that is being used in English lessons at schools across the city.
Posted in At School, Learning, Learning difficultiesComments Off
Greta Scacchi: Reading is food and empowerment
Posted on 25 June 2011.
Actress Greta Scacchi is backing the Evening Standard’s literacy campaign after having experienced the frustrations of bringing up a child with dyslexia.
Posted in At School, Books and Reading, Dyslexia, Food and Diet, Health, Independent Schools, Learning difficultiesComments Off
One in four primary school pupils are from an ethnic minority and almost a million schoolchildren do not speak English as their first language
Posted on 23 June 2011.
More than a quarter of primary school children are from an ethnic minority – an increase of almost half a million since 1997, it emerged yesterday.
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Record 1m pupils speak English as a second language
Posted on 23 June 2011.
Almost one million schoolchildren speak English as a second language, official figures show, sparking claims that mass immigration is placing a “huge strain” on the education system.
Posted in At School, Foreign languages, Learning, Learning difficultiesComments Off
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