Teaching for Neurodiversity
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Webinar Training: Teaching for Neurodiversity
This webinar training package aims to improve identification and understanding of dyslexia and other SpLD. It is for teachers and support staff, dyslexic individuals and their families.
Core documents
Understanding Neurodiversity: A Guide to SpLD (2nd edition)
Teaching for Neurodiversity: Engaging learners with SEND
Sample Pupil Profile: Secondary
All checklists can be found on the Dyslexia checklists page
These videos aim to provide an insight into teaching methods that have been shown consistently to be effective when working with dyslexic learners across the age ranges in education, from those struggling at the early stages of learning literacy, to those studying at Further or Higher Education (FE/HE).
The techniques used by specialist teachers working intensively with one or two learners will be particularly useful for:
• teachers/teaching assistants and learning support workers;
• parents/carers looking to help their child at home.
Other films show how a creative approach to the learning environment can cater for learners' needs across the spectrum of neurodiversity and result in benefits for all. We hope that these ideas will be inspirational for schools and teachers everywhere.
Part 1: Seeing the whole picture
Q&As from the training session
Part 2: Understanding neurodiversity
Understanding neurodiversity (post 16)
Part 3: Classroom support strategies
Classroom support strategies (Secondary)
Classroom support strategies (Post 16/Further Education)
More information
- Read the Train the Trainer Final Evaluation Report, Manchester Metropolitan University (2017)
- What works in dyslexia/SpLD friendly practice in the secondary school and further education college sectors: four case studies of effective practice, Faculty of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University. Dr Dominic Griffiths and Dr Kath Kelly
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Scoping Review of the Evidence Base for Dyslexia-friendly Classroom Teaching and Whole School Approaches, Dr Kathleen Kelly, Manchester Metropolitan University
- Scoping Review of the Literature on Processes for Change for Inclusive Practice and the Evidence for Success in Enabling Achievement, Dr Dominic Griffiths, Manchester Metropolitan University