New Column (Children With Learning Difficulties In Mainstream Schools)

Children With Learning Difficulties In Mainstream Schools

As more and more children are being diagnosed with having a specific learning disorder, the most common being dyslexia, is enough being done to help them?




In a class of thirty or more pupils can one teacher really be expected to take the time to spend with one individual child who may have a specific disorder.



As an advice columnist I have had a lot of letters over the years from parents of children with difficulties. Parents who feel that their children are not getting the help they need at the schools they are currently at, and that the more they seem to fight the system to try and get them the help they need the more barriers they seem to come up against.



Because more children are being diagnosed as having some form of difficulty, would it not be more beneficial for all the teachers themselves to be taught in multi sensory learning techniques instead of trying to teach them that all children are to be taught the same way. Multi sensory learning techniques would benefit all children not just the ones with learning difficulties. Teachers, schools and the government should be aware, they are not programming a conveyer belt of identical robots, but are teaching a group of thirty and some times more individuals. As we know no two individuals think, act, or look the same so why assume that thirty individuals could learn the same way.