Gifted children are quite rare.  It is important to distinguish between children of high ability and those who are exceptional. What to look for: Gifted children often have emotional or behavioural difficulties also.  They can have excessive energy, short attention spans and get bored easily.  They can resent authority, flout the rules regularly and be …
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Every child is an individual and children with Special Educational Needs are as different from each other as any other children, perhaps even more so.  Even if a child has had a ‘label’ attached to his/her particular special need, this does not mean that his/her needs will be exactly the same as others with the …
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This difficulty is when a person has a serious problem (more than the average person) in recognising faces and recalling names. This can be a problem for people with no other disabilities/difficulties or it can accompany other problems such as Tourette’s Syndrome. SENDO Within this legislation it is necessary to make ‘reasonable accomodation’. Some ways …
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David is a new English teacher in a boys’ secondary school.  In one of his classes he has two boys who have SLD (dyslexia).  A classroom assistant has been allocated to them (Mary) and she started in the school just six weeks before the summer break.  On the first day of term Mary arrives wearing …
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