[senco-forum] Possible dyslexia

Good idea.  I'll do that.

  Do you think it will be more accurate than the CAT tests which all of year 7 do?

  Amanda

Sharon Fawcitt <sfawcitt at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:
  Amanda - you could assess general ability using something like the Naglieri
- which is a non-verbal test and has been normed on EAL students, I think.

Richard, I'd also like a copy of your continuum for EAL assessment. 

Thanks
Sharon

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Richard Cook
Sent: 07 October 2006 17:55
To: Amanda; senco-forum
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Possible dyslexia 

Hi Amanda

Do you know:

When/how old they were when they first came to England?
How old they were/how long ago they first began to learn English (don't
assume because thewy were in England that they began to learn English at the
same time)?
what is their mother tongue?
Can they read their mother tongue?
can they write their mother tongue?
Is english their second/third/fourth etc language?

What makes you think there is a learning difficulty? Are they fluent in
their mother tongue

On average it will take a newly arrived person 7 - 10 years to achieve
fluency in English. So a child arriving in England at Year 7 will be in
their twenties before full proficiency is reached. Equally their rate of
progress from newly arrived will be rapid.

i'll send you my continuum for EAL assessment which will help you to assess
their current level.

Richard

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Amanda
Sent: 07 October 2006 17:36
To: senco-forum
Subject: [senco-forum] Possible dyslexia

Hello everyone

Anyone got any experience of testing then working with someone with some
sort of language difficulty whose first language is not English. I've done
the Dyslexia Screening Test but all it shows, of course, is that there is a
problem in English and I suspect that he has learning difficulties as well.

We don't get many students who do not have English as a first language -
this is only the fourth in eighteen years! I'd appreciate some advice from
those who know much more about this than me.

Amanda

Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall

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Amanda
Secondary SENCO
Cornwall