Cognition and Learning Needs

February 4, 2025

What is meant by Cognition and Learning Needs?

Cognition and learning difficulties cover a wide range of needs and abilities. Cognition and learning difficulties may affect all areas of the curriculum, as with ...

February 4, 2025

Universal Support for Cognition and Learning Needs

Every school, health setting, social worker and community support worker will: Consider the broad context of a child’s circumstances when they are identified as having ...

February 4, 2025

SEND Support Strategies or Interventions for Cognition and Learning Needs

Here are some ways that teachers and other school staff can help students learn and succeed in the classroom: Make learning fun through play: Playing ...

February 4, 2025

Suggestions for the SENDCo for Cognition and Learning Needs

Observe – allows the SENDCo to gather information about the young person’s abilities, strengths, and areas of difficulty in different contexts and activities. The SENDCo ...

February 4, 2025

Specific Toolkits for SENDCos: Slower paced learners

Steve Butnik’s article Understanding, Diagnosing, and Coping with Slow Processing Speed offers an overview of ideas but also focuses on the fact that sometimes slow ...

February 4, 2025

Specific Toolkits for SENDCos: Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD)

Cognition and Learning Toolkit for Specific Learning Difficulties Area of Need: Specific learning difficulties For most specific learning difficulties, there are likely to be: Indications ...

February 4, 2025

Specific Toolkits for SENDCos: Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD)

Cognition and Learning Toolkit for MLD learners Area of Need: Moderate Learning Difficulties (MLD) The learner is working below age-related expectations across most subjects and ...

February 4, 2025

Specific Toolkits for SENDCos: Complex Learning Difficulties

Cognition and Learning Toolkit for Complex Learning Difficulties (Including FSAD. and prematurity) Area of Need: Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders (FASD) ...

February 4, 2025

Specific Toolkits for SENDCos: Post 16

Cognition and Learning: General learning difficulties SEND support: Needs to be met from core funding for learners aged 16 to 19+ with general learning difficulties ...

February 4, 2025

Assessment tools for Cognition and Learning Needs

Dyslexia screener tools Dyslexia screening - British Dyslexia Association Reading/spelling measures British Picture Vocabulary Scales (BPVS) Using the British Picture Vocabulary Scale to support exceptional ...