Practical Strategies for DCD
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Getting the environment right
Aids to communication • • • •
Passport Buddy system Peer mentoring schemes Visits to the school for parents and pupils • Consider adaptations may need to be made to the curriculum • Social skills group- M8tes programme
General approaches – Photographs and names of their subject teachers – Timetable ahead of time – A point of contact Mr Davies English Teacher
Map of the School • Using colours, key features, reference points
Lunch and break times • Get to know rules • Create a time out space • Encourage lunch time clubs where there are “ formalised” opportunities for socialisiing • Peer mentor schemes
Subject checklists French •Textbook •Workbook •Dictionary •Pen
Item Black blazer, with school logo White Shirt
•Pencil •Highlighter •Eraser •Ruler
Black Tie
Colour coded maps
Uniform checklist
Organisation – around school Colour coded rooms
Canteen menu Soup and roll
Monday
Teacher photos
Time table £1.65
Lamb pasta Bolognese
£1.90
Spaghetti with pesto
£2.30
Chips
£1.00
Miss Green
Miss Jones
Maths
History
Friendships • ‘Circle of Friends’ • Peer mentor • Social groups and opportunities • Friendship bench or stick
Playground opportunities for socialisingthemed days
Other areas at school • Sports days • Toilets • Assembly – sound and seating
Classroom approaches • Keep instructions short and check for understanding • White board to make notes on • Reduce volume of writing and homework
Create a PA system • Diary meeting- what, where, when with whom, what’s expected • Keep on task • Understand when enough is enough • Enter into diary
Teach basic skills
Teaching organisational skills • Packing a bag for school-timetable of items • Planning a meal • Map reading • Reading a time table • Treasure hunt- scavenger hunting
Pin board
Stationary drawer
De-clutter your room
Organising the room
Laundry basket ’
Label your bookshelf
Organisation of space Label drawers pants T-shirts
Teach time management
http://www.catch-the-time.com
Build in extra time
Mobile phone calendar
Organising the time
Computer diary
Weekly schedule
Organising the work
Weekly sort out ’
Box file for each subject
Folder for loose notes
Talk through ideas
Subtask practice
Paragraph 1
Introduce the topic
Paragraph 2
Arguments for
Paragraph 3
Arguments against
Paragraph 4
Conclusion What I think
Record ideas
Organisation: In the classroom Provide scaffolding
Assignment/rep ort templates
Bullet point ideas MY Assignment IDEAS
Week
Topic
Weekly schedule
•History of the battle •What people said about the battle •What has happened since the battle •My thoughts about the battle
Note book
Glossary of terms
Templat e
Note taking
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Bullet points
Mind maps
Reading and selecting text • Use of bullet points- power point • Highlighting text • Post - it notes
www.Mycorkboard.com
Use acronyms to remind
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Questi on
Kanga roo
Sheep
Croco dile
Koala
Black Widow Spider
Question grids
What do they eat? Where do they live? Fur or feather s?
http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/D.J.Wray/Ideas/frames.html
Specific writing frames http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/subjects/literacy/Writing-frames/frames2.html
Speech to text
Text to speech
Computer strategies
Touch typing Changing colour background
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Screen ruler
Inattention/fiddling
Homework • • • • • •
Print on labels ‘Myspace’ Write up at start of class Intranet Buddy system Reduce volume- same level of work but less
Key Skills
Handwriting
Handwriting process 4 - 10
4-10 years
11-14 years
14–16 years 16+ years
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Handwriting practice
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Keyboard awareness
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50% handwriting 50% computer
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Handouts
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Alphasmart
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Touch typing
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Laptop
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Handheld PC
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Voice Recorders
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Speech to Text
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Predictive Text
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Dictaphone
Handwriting – 4 to 10 year olds • Handwriting programmse : – – – –
Write from the Start Write Dance Living Letters Handwriting Program Handwriting without Tears
• Computer programme : – – – –
First Keys 2 Clicker 5 Scally’s World: Letters & Nouns Speedy Keys
Help with writing • Pre writing skills • Posture and position • Pen grip
Look developmentally • • • •
Has the child pre writing skills? Can the child sit still? What pen grip? What is their posture
Pre writing skills
Think variety Think big
Handwriting practice • Sand tray shapes • Shaving foam and stick
Finger puppets
Finger painting
Hand strength
•Posting •Threading •Peg games
Fishing for letters Playground chalk
Good stability Working on postural control for writing • • • •
Wheelbarrow races Tug of war Push me pull you Climbing frames
Swiss ball
Posture- Core stability
Trampolining
Posture and seating
Study Carrel
Posture- in seating
Create a tool kit to demonstrate • Give additional ideas/tasks to work at home and at school… practicing in context • Appropriate level of practice- 20 mins 3 times a week
Pencil case
Book holder
WRITING TOOLS
Grips colour and type
Shorter pencils
• The alternate pencil grip. – Place the pencil /pen between the index and the middle finger resting well back in the web. Support the barrel of the pencil from underneath with the thumb.
Angle boards
Handwriting strategies • Position first- paper to right if left handed and vice versa • Use carbon paper between leaves of paper to give visual feedback and help reduce pressure. • Use raised lined paper
Handwriting adaptation – Provide handouts- reduce writing – Dictate some work – Teaching Mind-mapping / bullet pointing/power point – Use computer – Provide ‘cloze’ procedures e.g. The boy ...... an apple.
Toshiba Satellite Pro
Asus Eee PC
Touch Typing Programmes
Useful websites • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/free • www.tuxtype – free • www.handwritinginterestgroup.org.uk
Scissor skills
Scissors
Scissor activities • Squirt guns, oven baster, eye dropper • Tearing and snipping different paper weightcard,sand paper • Stick lollipops and cut between • Cutting along lines
Social skills
Get the “social currency” • At home- opportunity for others to guide him re: clothes, language, music etc
What is she thinking?
Social difficulties • • • •
Smaller group work Avoid idiomatic expressions Check for understanding Break down instructions into small chunks
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Social rules
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Maths skills
Scissors
Recording maths • Use set symbols for science • Larger maths paper with bigger squares
If difficult in visualising or hearing it • Need to feel and see it
If difficult in visualising or hearing it • Need to feel and see it
Visual prompts
NUMICON www.numicon.com
Functional mathematics • Handling money • Filling in a form
Using ICT
Maths mania
Topics covered include: • Numeracy with number questions on the four rules, decimals, fractions etc • Angles, what they are and how they differ • Telling the time, with time intervals of days, months and years • Measures includes length, volume and mass • Shape and Space
“Maths Circus” Topics covered include: • Spatial awareness • 3-dimensional geometry • Addition and multiplication • Investigating direction and angle, compass bearings, time and vectors • Positive and negative numbers • Planning a sequence of moves in advance, and executing them later on
Maths and movement • Fishing game- for numbers • Adding and subtracting- crawling to the end of the room
Math talk MathTalk & Scientific Notebook is a bolt on bundle for Dragon NaturallySpeaking • for creating, editing and typesetting mathematics and scientific equations by voice. • The program has learning modules for algebra, trigonometry, calculus, statistics and video demos demonstrating how to use features.
Playing Bingo • Bingo card maker : http://www.teachnology.com/web_tools/materials/bingo/
Resources
• http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/maths/cont • ICT in Maths;Alison Clark-Jeavons :ISBN: 1 85539 191 0,Exciting • Precision maths ( http://www.johnandgwyn.co.uk/home.html )
CDROM- Steve Chinn What do you do when you can’t learn times tables
• http://www.woodlandsjunior.kent.sch.uk/maths/index.html
Ten ticks http://www.10ticks.co.uk/s_help.aspx http://www.math.com/students/tools.html
Reading Skills
Reading materials • Font size and type-
too small to see and harder to read!
Reading this is difficult to do
Reading this is much easier
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Check information is at a suitable reading level
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Visual difficulties • • • • • • • •
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Auditory difficulties • Mind map • Short instructions – check for understanding- ask child to tell you what has been said • Write down instructions • Visual timetables • Better at practical tasks- on the job- show the task • Consider environment- quiet or headphones The Dyscovery Centre copyright 2008
Motor difficulties • Minimise writing • Handouts – with highlighter-check know the key words • ICT access- what do they use?
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www.adhdtraining.co.uk
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www.parent-plus.org
Making information freely available
www.parent-plus.org
Useful websites • http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/-free • www.handwritinginterestgroup.org.uk • http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/ • http://www.crazymonkeygames.com/QWERTY-Warriors-2.html • http://www.typefastertypingtutor.com/index.html • http://www.touch-typing-tutor.com/TypingInvadersFreeTypingGame.htm • http://www.goodtyping.com/
Useful Websites • http://www.clarosoftware.com • Free trial downloads – Mindfull, Screenruler, Claroread, Speakout, Wordread • Order online. • http://www.dyslexic.com • Free information on useful software and hardware solutions. • Free trial downloads. • Order online. • http://www.dotolearn.com • Free downloads of pictures for visual timetables. • http://www.techdis.ac.uk • Free trial downloads for Mindmapping software (Inspiration, Mind genius, Mindmapper) and Screen rulers.
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Useful Websites • http://www.egames.com • Free trial downloads for games for visual perception, mouse control, literacy • http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net • Free keyboard familiarity programs suitable for children. • http://www.mycorkboard.com • Free personal organiser program. • http://www.myadhd.com • £30 subscription for 1 year. Downloadable tools and strategies regarding organisational skills, time management, budgeting etc. Assessments and questionnaires. • www.addis.com The Dyscovery Centre copyright 2008
Useful websites • • • •
www.dyspraxiafoundation.org http://dyscovery.newport.ac.uk www.canchild.ca www.mycorkboard.com