Many children in our schools experience Additional Support Needs (ASNs) These can include such conditions as dyslexia, autistic spectrum disorders, (ASD/Dyspraxia) and attention deficit disorders, (ADD/ADHD), amongst many others.
Our schools are dedicated to supporting these children and young people, often with individualised support programmes delivered by teachers and pupil support assistants both within and outside their mainstream classrooms. The problem can often be resources and managing to find ways to enable children and young people to achieve their potential in a busy classroom.
At Chambers Tutoring, we are fully dedicated to working with parents and young people to find a way to mitigate these barriers to education and to find ways to access the curriculum and to become more independent learners. With a regular tutoring session, a child or young person with ASNs is likely to have considerably more 1-2-1 time with a teacher who understands their needs. The time that we have to dedicate to an individual means we can build the relationship and help our pupils and their families to recognise the individual barriers that exist.
It is important that young people recognise and understand where they experience difficulties so that they can work to develop strategies to overcome them. An example would be for young people who find planning a story difficult and who lose track of their ideas, to record their thoughts and listen back to them. They can listen a few times and take notes without having to rush or worry about forgetting something. Seeing a way around their problems can be hugely empowering; children and young people can see that they can influence their learning rather than it being done either to them or for them.
As one primary 7 child said to me:
“When I find something difficult now, I want to keep it close and give it a hug. Then I can work out how to make that thing easier and what I need help with”
We couldn’t really put it better ourselves.
It is important that children and young people are not left to build a negative view of themselves as a result of their ASNs. No child should ever be made to feel stupid or to think of themselves as stupid because of something they cannot control. An ASN is not a measure of intelligence and there are many types of ‘smart’.
We are here to help you and your child overcome these tricky obstacles on their learning journey. We accommodate this ASN support into every subject that we offer. So if you feel we are the right people to help your child and want to see what we offer subject-wise, you can do so by clicking here or the button below