Specific Learning Difficulties ─ What Teachers Need to Know

Hudson offers classroom teachers in secondary schools insights into the minds, strengths, and weaknesses of students who have Specific Learning Difficulties, and provides them with an armory of practical ideas to teach such students more effectively. The idea is not to read the book cover-to-cover, she says, but to dip into it when specific situations arise. Her topics are brains that work a little differently, dyslexia, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, dyspraxia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), autism spectrum disorder and Asperger syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), organizational skills, and exams and revision. Annotation c2015 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Diana Hudson is a tutor and mentor to students with Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD), as well as a subject classroom teacher (biology) and learning support teacher and SENCO. She has a diagnosis of dyslexia, and is a parent to four children, three of whom have been diagnosed with SpLD. Diana lives in Buckinghamshire, UK.