[SENco-forum] withdrawal

As an SpLD tutor this drives me crazy.  1:1 or specialist support often has
to done elsewhere as it involves a high degree of listening or speech
production that cannot be done in a noisy classroom.  The head would not
dare ask a Speech therapist to work under these conditions.  It is possible
to work in class in partnership with the teacher to give an extremely high
level of differentia on a particular subject (use of speech
marks/punctuation), but this is not the ideal situation for trying to work
to support lower level skills.

Try the House of Commons education and skills SEN Select committee Report 3
(online) that shows the government doing a u- turn on Inclusion.  It has
been misrepresented as being everyone in class all the time! It really means
being included in community via mainstream or special school curriculum  -
in a way that best suits the child.  Being taken out of the class can be the
best way forward in some instances.

However the child had to be asked their preferences.  I would try 'would you
like to do this is class or in my room where all the games are' (I don't
think there is anything against bribery as yet if you call it positive
rewarding!) -don't offer false choices or they will elect to have no support
and you are up the creek without a paddle.

Failing anyone coming up with the needed research documents I would have a
hugely multisensory lesson that involves a lot of painting, cornflour and
noise and they will probably be glad to relocate you. One teacher told me
they could not have one child having fun with cornflour as the whole class
would want to do it!

  If the whole class had had a chance to do it earlier on and for longer I
would probably not have to be doing such a high level of withdrawal for
handwriting issues.  Eventually when all children are picked up early and
supported as they go, in their classrooms, there will be little need for
lots of withdrawal time. However for the next 10 years there will be
children trapped in the system who have been overlooked or not identified as
having SEN/AEN who do not get noticed until the problem is
severe/behavioural and who will need to be withdrawn to help their self
esteem as well as anything else.  Whatever happened to commonsense?

Sharon

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