Working with Students with Complex Learning Difficulties

Programme

9.30 Arrival and registration

10.00 How students learn and the visual

o Learning preferences

o Key factors in the learning process

10.30 Communicating with students

o Use of visual strategies

o Questioning, feedback and the issues

o Behaviour management and some tips to try

11.30 Case studies highlighting different difficulties including:

o Aspergers

o Tourettes

2.00 Resources, activities and approaches

o Practical classroom activities

o Classroom layout and management

o Supporting students outside the classroom

3.00 Moving towards an inclusive approach

o Issues discussed

3.30 Learning review

External Courses: Please contact us for to have this course delivered in-house - please contact us for available dates.

Price: £600 for a school based course

Trainer

Clare Haines is a part time teacher in an all age all purpose Special School mainly working with students with Autism. Until 2002 she worked in a large mainstream secondary school as a SENCO. She worked with a range of students including Tourettes. She provides a range of common sense approaches in a sensitive and realistic way. You will gain from her experience and go away with plenty to put into practice immediately.

Target Audience

SENCOs. Staff in Mainstream and Special Schools.

Course Information

This course is for staff in mainstream and special schools. It will explore aspects of Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Aspergers and Tourettes will be used as examples of students with communication difficulties. It will provide ideas to meet students' emotional and cognitive needs.

Course Content

How students learn and the visual
Communication and the barriers
Case studies highlighting different difficulties
Action case study - a student with Tourettes
Behaviour management - tips to try
Resources, activities and approaches to use to
improve communication for students
Moving towards an inclusive approach - issues