LEARNER ADVICE
Experienced, independent advice and support addressing your concerns over any aspect of learning, achievement and engagement.
A holistic approach that puts your child at the centre.
Clarity and empowerment.
Learner Profiling
Find out why your child is struggling with learning or engagement.
Putting together the pieces.
As parents we often know when something isn’t right but we are not sure who to turn to for advice.
Learner profiling uses a research based tool to gather evidence from school, parents, child and other relevant people before formulating advice and suggesting practical strategies for home and school.
This is a useful tool to help make decisions about what to do next and if a formal diagnosis would be advisable.
Understanding existing assessments.
Advice for provision - both now and in the future.
Joining the dots.
Clinical assessments and reports can contain a vast amount of information and advice. Knowing what to do next can be confusing. It is also possible to get a diagnosis with no advice; leaving parents lost, not sure of what to do next or what help to ask for.
We specialise in collating all the clinical and educational reports and spend time talking to everyone involved to understand the current challenges before providing clear advice, practical strategies and way forward.
Effective intervention.
Practical strategies for home and school.
Specialist advice for successful tutoring.
For intervention to be effective it must start with a clear understanding of a child’s needs and then a plan can be formulated and monitored.
Analysing why a child is finding something difficult or is avoiding a task is the first step.
The aim is intervention that builds skills and provides scaffolding to support the learner. Intervention may be with reading, spelling, maths or some of the executive functioning skills that need a boost. It can also include clinical therapies or the development of social and communication skills.
Executive Functioning Skills Profiling.
What does the learner find hard?
What skills need building?
Time management, Planning, Prioritising, Emotional Control, Organisation,
Starting a task, Persisting to the End, Response Inhibition,
Using what I Know, Working memory, Flexible thinking.
These skills develop between the ages of 4 and 20 and in many learners some of these take time and need teaching. A delay is typical with some diagnoses sucgh as Dyspraxia and ADHD but a learner doesn’t need a label to be struggling.
Profiling finds out what the strengths and areas of weakness are so that help can be given and intervention targeted. The Learner is empowered to ask for the help they need and the adults around them know what scaffolding they can provide.
A detailed report provides practical strategies and advice for home and school.