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Removing Barriers to Learning in the Early Years
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eBook - ePub
Removing Barriers to Learning in the Early Years
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This book shows how different types of SEN can impact on a child's learning and what practitioners can do to help. Includes:
- photocopiable record sheets
- helpful explanations of responsibilities in relation to the Code of Practice and SENDA
- short case studies that illustrate how strategies work in practice.
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All young children are born with a sense of curiosity about the world in which they live. Through learning, children develop essential survival skills and organise their world so as to make sense of it. They learn to acquire crucial ābuilding blockā skills and also to regulate their environment which in turn helps them to live in a social world. For many, however, there are circumstances which can impede learning ā especially if adults around the child fail to understand the difficulties he is experiencing and/or are unsure about how to take positive action.
Communication and interaction
āNo man is an islandā and children learn about themselves and the world through their interaction with others. Various theories have been put forward about this learning, including the importance of language, a staged āreadinessā approach and the importance of attachment between a parent and child. For children who have difficulties with understanding and using language, early years settings can be terrifying places! Imagine being left in unfamiliar surroundings with people speaking in a way you didnāt understand. If you suspect that a child is experiencing this sort of difficulty, you need to consider the following course of action:
Sensory and/or physical difficulties
These sorts of difficulties are often the most straightforward to cater for and will usually have been identified by the health visitor/GP/parents. There may or may not be additional learning difficulties to take into account. Where the child has no additional problems, it is important not to allow the impairment in moving, hearing or seeing to limit the childās learning. This has a lot to do with expectations and encouraging the child to be as independent as possible. Wrapping him in cotton wool and doing everything for him will not be the best preparation for coping with the school environment later on. The other children also need to understand this.
In some instances, parents may not be aware of a sight or hearing impairment and it is only when in the early years setting that the child begins to experience difficulties. For example, parents may be used to speaking loudly and so the child with a hearing impairment does not struggle to hear them. At pre-school, with staff who have softer voices, and the added dimension of extra background noise, the child has much more difficulty. Look out for the child who:
A visual impairment may be noticed only when a child begins to learn to read and finds that the print is blurry. Look out for the child who:
A child with physical/motor difficulties may:
In these cases, parents should be encouraged to take the child to his GP who may arrange for a thorough examination by a specialist.
Once a childās difficulties have been identified, there is much that can be done to minimise the difficulties (see the āTop tipsā section on pp. 67ā78) and a consideration of the settingās environment is a good starting point.
Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Section 1 What are the barriers to learning?
- Section 2 Case studies
- Section 3 Planning
- Section 4 Top tips for teaching and learning
- Appendix 1 Recording pack
- Appendix 2 Developmental checklists
- Glossary
- References
- Further reading
- Useful addresses