Offering valuable practical advice, this book provides the ordinary classroom teacher with enough information to equip them with a range of strategies to tackle everyday classroom situations. This book expertly guides the reader through: legal and policy contexts terms and definitions interventions and rationale approaches related to different curriculum subjects provision for dyscalculia and acalculia. Taking into account recent policy changes, and with an emphasis on what works in the classroom, this book will prove a practical, readable and invaluable resource for the busy practitioner.

Table of Contents

1. Specific Learning Difficulties 2. Dyslexia: Characteristics 3. Dyslexia: Interventions 4. Dyspraxia 5. Dyscalcula: Its Nature and Interventions. Conclusion