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Understanding Specific Learning Difficulties
! STOP AND THINK!
Try to complete the table. The first row has been completed for you.
What could you do to
Situation Connected to
support the child?
The child with Communication/ social Set up a ‘friendship group’
ASC is finding it interaction focusing on how to make and
difficult to make sustain friendships including
friends the ‘rules’ of conversation
The classroom is Sensory Processing
noisy Disorder
The fire alarm
goes off
A new teacher
takes the class
Studying a text
that uses a lot
of figurative
language
Getting changed Sensory Processing
for PE Disorder
The child doesn’t like the
feel of the shirt
The school
canteen is
crowded
Key Fact
Specific Learning Difficulties and autism can occur together in the
same person. An individual who is autistic might also have SpLDs.
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