[senco-forum] Developing listening skills in secondary pupils-Eddie's CD

Eddie, 

I said 'Your program is very useful in teaching children how  to  write down 
what 
they have already seen, heard and are familiar with,  which  can aid them in
learning how to take dication in principle for  those that are  unfamiliar 
with it and have no learning difficulties to  overcome, but which in  real 
terms means very little because real life  doesn't work like  that."

You replied:

"Contrary to what you write, the target group for this approach do  indeed 
have learning difficulties- on average they have reading deficits  of about 
two years and their general literacy skills are abysmal and their  teachers 
regard them as having poor listening skills.- I would have  thought that this 
was pretty solid evidence that they have considerable  learning 
difficulties"-  

That was my point, that in my view it would NOT be beneficial for those  with 
difficulties just for those without difficulties for the reasojns I  have 
stated...if you are targetting listening difficulties, you need to simply  work 
on listening.

Best wishes,
Aly

Chair Auditory  Processing Disorder in the UK/APDUK
www.lacewingmultimedia.com/APD.htm 
www.apduk.org