Understanding Learning Differences - Softcover

Ann Marie Lynch

9781786051523: Understanding Learning Differences

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ISBN 10: 1786051524 ISBN 13: 9781786051523

Publisher: Orpen Press, 2024

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What do you do if you’re concerned about your child struggling in school? Or if you are wondering about how to support a child with a learning difference or additional need? Understanding Learning Differences provides parents and teachers with an overview of common learning differences such as dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, intellectual difficulties, ADHD, dyspraxia, anxiety, autism, and speech and language difficulties. Written by an author who has both personal and professional experience of dealing with additional needs, it highlights and explains common traits and early indicators, while also providing strategies of support in areas of reading, writing, organisation, study skills and social skills. It contains down-to-earth and honest discussions on parenting and teaching children with additional needs. All topics are viewed from the perspectives and experiences of parents, teachers and, most importantly, the children. Understanding Learning Differences stresses the importance of seeing and addressing the individual needs of the student. It also aims to unlock some of the assessment jargon, discusses ethical questions and explores the alternative ways we should be looking at additional needs or learning differences. Understanding Learning Differences is essential reading for parents, teachers, SNAs, and all those working with students with additional needs.

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About the Author

Ann Marie Lynch, Mst. BA. H.dip., has been an Additional Educational Needs coordinator in a busy post-primary Dublin school for 20 years. Previous to this she worked as a year head and deputy principal. She has passionately delivered Special Educational Needs lectures in DCU and Trinity College Dublin. She has been involved in many projects that promote the education of others around the area of additional needs, and has participated in national and local advisory groups to advance the educational experiences of students with additional educational needs.

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