SEN

=Special Educational Needs/Additional Learning Needs= 'If a child does not learn the way you teach, then teach him the way he learns."
 * What are Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLDs)?**

Specific Learning Difficulties (or SpLDs), affect the way information is learned and processed. They are neurological (rather than psychological), usually run in families and occur independently of intelligence. They can have significant impact on education and learning and on the acquisition of literacy skills. SpLD is an umbrella term used to cover a range of frequently co-occurring difficulties, more commonly: Dyslexia. Dyspraxia/DCD. Dyscalculia. A.D.D/A.D.H.D. Auditory Processing Disorder. SpLDs can also co-occur with difficulties on the autistic spectrum such as Asperger Syndrome []

**Making your teaching inclusive.**
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**SpLD - Dyscalculia**

 * What is dyscalculia?**

Dyscalculia is an individual's difficulty in conceptualizing numbers, number relationships, outcomes of numerical operations and estimation - what to expect as an outcome of an operation. Dyscalculia manifests in a person as having difficulty:
 * Mastering arithmetic facts by the traditional methods of teaching, particularly the methods involving counting.
 * Dealing with exchange of money-handling a bank account, giving and receiving change, and tipping.
 * Learning abstract concepts of time and direction / schedules, telling and keeping track of time, and the sequence of past and future events.
 * Acquiring spatial orientation/space organisation / direction, easily disoriented (including left/right orientation), trouble reading maps, and grappling with mechanical processes.
 * Learning musical concepts, following directions in sports that demand sequencing or rules, and keeping track of scores and players during games such as cards and board games.
 * Following sequential directions - sequencing (including reading numbers out of sequence, substitutions, reversals, omissions and doing operations backwards), organizing detailed information, remembering specific facts and formulas for completing their mathematical calculations.

Dyscalculia can be quantitative, which is a difficulty in counting and calculating; or qualitative, which is a difficulty in the conceptualizing of mathematics processes and spatial sense; or mixed, which is the inability to integrate quantity and space.

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Dyscalculia (resources for the teacher) [] [|http://www.squidoo.com/dyscalculia-day#module87889591]

//Did you know that according to research 60% of pupils with dyslexia also have problems with maths.//

Guidance to support pupils with Dyslexia and Dyscalculia []

SpLD - Dyslexia and how it affects maths []

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Cognitive learning systems and difficulties with maths []

Special Educational Needs in Maths []

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SEN Teacher []

Guidance booklets []

Supporting pupils with SEN in the Numeracy lesson []

Role of SENCO [] [] []

Summary of SEN Code of Practice (Wales) []


 * Organisations **


 * Patoss **

Patoss is a professional association of teachers of students with specific learning difficulties, for all those concerned with the teaching and support of pupils with SpLD: dyslexic, dyspraxic, ADD, and Aspergers syndrome. Membership is open to qualified teachers in SpLD and those studying for either the certificate or the diploma in SpLD. []

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 * British Dyslexia Association (BDA)**