[senco-forum] dyslexia friendly help please!

As a support teacher, I have been asked to do some work in a high school

> As a support teacher, I have been asked to do some work in a high  school
with individual depts. looking at dyslexia friendly issues relating to  each
subject area.<

I applaud this step. Too often SEN issues are treated too generically at
secondary school level and as a result they are never truly embedded in
subject departments. The upshot can be that such issues continue to be
regarded as the purview of the SEN department alone.

Make sure that each department is given a copy of its subject-specific
"Planning, teaching and assessing the curriculum for pupils with learning
difficulties" document on learning difficulties, downloadable from:

http://www.nc.uk.net/ld/

David Fulton Publishers also have some excellent books on the teaching of
individual school subjects to those with specific learning difficulties.

I have posted on my website SEN reading lists for most National Curriculum
subjects:

http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/InclusiveCurricula/biblio.htm

Each of these documents has a SpLD section with online and print
subject-specific references. Many of the references are to books and
articles written by subject specialists with an expertise in SEN, so your
subject departments are likelier to develop a greater sense of "ownership"
of the practical ideas and strategies recommended. In the case of the MFL
bibliography, you will find almost 500 references to foreign language
learners with SpLD!

Hope this helps.

David Wilson
Harton Technology College, South Shields
http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/