Back to School - time to evaluate children’s educational needs - September 3, 2008

The summer break is an important time for children. Not all learning takes place in the context of a classroom. Just as adults find it difficult to take in new information if they are fed too much information at once, children often need time and space to assimilate what they have learned, to be free to play, explore new places, situations and people and to grow. Even short periods of boredom can be the mother of imagination and creativity.

However, with the return to school, specific learning difficulties that have not been resolved over the holiday period re-emerge. These can take many forms: difficulties with specific aspects of learning such as reading, handwriting, spelling and maths; resistance to doing homework or accepting criticism; avoidance of school, or at worst, a generally unhappy child. Whatever the cause, the key to helping your child is to uncover the reason(s) for the presenting difficulties.

In some cases (by no means all), unidentified physical factors such as poor control of eye movements necessary for reading, writing and copying, hand-eye coordination or auditory processing difficulties can underlie the presenting problems causing an otherwise intelligent child to under-achieve in the classroom and experience frustration and feelings of isolation.

INPP specialises in identifying and treating physical factors in specific learning difficulties and behavioural problems. To find out whether INPP can help your child, follow the links to the INPP screening questionnaire or contact INPP.

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