Teaching Approaches

It is essential to use strategies that allow the child’s good skills to continue to develop, as these may ultimately be the way the child compensates for any residual deficits and is able to function in later life. Visual processing is usually relatively spared and can therefore be used to compensate for problems in processing auditory information and as an alternative mode of communication.

Each child’s educational programme needs to be carefully tailored to meet their particular needs. It may be important to allocate resource to activities that are not obviously educational, but which are impairing a child’s function significantly. For example, the child who finds social interaction difficult may need additional help in unstructured situations such as the playground. Other children would benefit from help to tackle behavioural problems that might otherwise take them out of the learning environment.