Schools and families shouldn’t just be expected to absorb more responsibility. This is a chance for a radical rethink.
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Boys were twice as likely as girls to be identified with specific learning difficulties
Charter schools enjoy smaller classes and better teacher-pupil ratios. But big questions remain about their success rates – and why the public system isn’t better resourced.
There is growing concern about school refusal rates in Australia. But experts caution against parents simply forcing kids back to the classroom.
In the first study of its kind, researchers found medication alone has no detectable impact on how much children with ADHD learn in the classroom.
Children with dyslexia seem to find it more difficult to judge the direction of moving dots - this could explain why reading is also more challenging.
These children are not getting the help they need to thrive at school and at home.
Based on the current body of evidence, the use of coloured filters should not be recommended as a dyslexia treatment, nor be provided through publicly funded bodies.
Teachers’ understanding of dyslexia is mostly limited to behaviour, new survey finds.
Private companies are building new inpatient units – the state has been trying to reduce them for the last five years.
Developmental coordination disorder has only recently been recognised for what it is.
The way children are assessed for special educational needs is still a postcode lottery.
Lesions on a particular region of the brain can cause ‘acquired dyslexia’.
Concerns that people with dyslexia won’t be able to memorise poetry are missing the point.
If the brain processes words and mathematical symbols differently, why not musical symbols too?
We fail children who experience difficulty in school and with learning almost every day in Australia and in so many ways. These children can fall through a myriad of cracks: cracks that appear in some…
For some children, despite having no known physical or mental disability, learning to read, write, spell, do maths, dress, throw and catch a ball, or organise themselves presents significant challenges…
The term “learning difficulties” is the hand grenade of education. Throw the terminology around and teachers, students, parents and school community members react widely and, at times, wildly. Some individuals…
How schools should support students with special educational needs and disabilities is a controversial area of research. Debates continue over whether certain conditions exist or not, or if they are “over…
Using an e-reader may help some dyslexic students understand what they read more effectively, researchers at Harvard University argue. In a paper published in the journal PLOS One, the authors found that…
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