Girls with ADHD remain more likely to be unrecognised or mis-identified, leading to lower-than-expected rates of referral, assessment, and treatment for ADHD.
In the general school environment, children with Dyslexia typically struggle with word recognition, reading fluency, spelling, and writing.
Girls and women with ASD are different, not in their core characteristics but in terms of their reaction to being different – girls and women have so often successfully camouflaged their autism.
Maths anxiety is a state of discomfort which occurs in response to situations involving the solving of mathematical problems in a wide variety of ordinary life and academic situations.
At school and home there are quick wins to build word knowledge intentionally. Develop vocabulary through word relatedness: categories, antonyms and synonyms, analogies, semantic absurdities, narratives, and morphology.
In education, our goal should be to build deep thinkers who can problem solve and grapple with all types of information and situations with which they are faced. We want our children to be confident and independent thinkers, to question and analyse things deeply, to take the cognitive tools and strategies they have learnt and to become world changers.
Educators play a vital role in the academic and emotional well-being of learners with Dyslexia. This learning difficulty is more common than people often realise and is thought to affect around 10% of the population, and 4% severely.
Digital media technologies have created new social contexts and, in some cases, altered existing ones. Along with the potential benefits and opportunities, this explosion of technology brings several challenges that require our attention.
Advances in neuroscience suggest that capacities for resilience are innate in the brain and are hard wired by evolution. How well these capacities develop depends on quality of the early environment: attachment and parental attunement.
School’s Digest was established with the aim of providing the public with accurate information including school names, addresses, telephone numbers, EMIS numbers, email addresses and matriculation performance data for schools across South Africa.
