Cognition and Learning
Cognition and Learning | ||
Children and young people who find learning, thinking and understanding harder than most other people.
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Types of need and what that could look like Some things that children might find difficult are:
| Examples of support available in our school
| How we check it is working |
*Taking longer to learn important skills • Find it difficult to remember things like times tables and important words for reading. • Find it hard to understand how to use their letter sounds for reading and spelling. • Take longer to process information. | *Teachers change what they are teaching or the way that they teach to help the child or young person learn more with the rest of the class. • Extra support can be given in a small group by an adult to help the child or young person learn the things they are finding difficult. • Extra support can be given to the child or young person by adult for a short time during the day to support them to learn new skills. • Individual assessments to help show what the child or young person needs help with. *Access to specialist support from a specialist/outside agency | • Look at the targets set to see if the child or young person has achieved them. • Talk to adults who have worked with the child or young person. • Talk to the child or young person. • Talk to parents. • Use school tracking system to see how much the progress has been made. • Have meetings with other members of staff in school to talk about the child or young person’s progress. • Ask for other professionals to work with the child or young person to check the progress being made. *Pupil Progress meetings |