How to Help a Student with Special Needs
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General History:Medical History:
Student’s strengths & interests:
* Very sociable
* Very outgoing and friendly
* Fine motor skills
* Very caring
* Enjoys art, crafts, music, P.E.
Student’s Needs:
* Difficulties in attention maintenance and control
* Difficulties in cognitive processing
* To enlarge her target circle of friends.
* To start and finish a task on time
* To express her feelings and needs appropriately
Student’s learning style:Constant prompting, re directing to tasks
Motivation and reinforces: As a reward she likes to go to the school park or to the classroom’s garden
Teaching approaches that help: Number grid for Mathematics lesson and alphabet grid for Maltese and English
Special Provision & Resources if requested:Number grid and alphabet grid
Other Services given: at school - Speech therapy
outside school –Museum
Summary of progress
Physical Health: n/a
Language: Receptive – Sometimes she just understands one command at a time
Expressive – Sometimes she doesn’t express herself but instead she puts down
her head on the table and shows a sad face
Self-help Skills:Very independent with regards to toileting, lunch bag/box. She needs reminders
to ensure that what is needed for home is not left behind
Motor Skills:
Gross motor skills – Fine gross motor skills – age appropriate
Fine motor skills - Age appropriate. She is right handed and she has a very good tripod
with pencil grip however her handwriting is large.
Social Skills with peers & adults:During break time, she joins her peers in games, but sometimes she just look at the others playing
Attention & concentration: Short attention span especially after the mid-morning break and sometimes even from the morning. Needs constant prompting.
Motivators & reinforces: She goes to the classroom’s garden when she finishes her classwork on time.
Eye-Contact: Age appropriate...
Student’s strengths & interests:
* Very sociable
* Very outgoing and friendly
* Fine motor skills
* Very caring
* Enjoys art, crafts, music, P.E.
Student’s Needs:
* Difficulties in attention maintenance and control
* Difficulties in cognitive processing
* To enlarge her target circle of friends.
* To start and finish a task on time
* To express her feelings and needs appropriately
Student’s learning style:Constant prompting, re directing to tasks
Motivation and reinforces: As a reward she likes to go to the school park or to the classroom’s garden
Teaching approaches that help: Number grid for Mathematics lesson and alphabet grid for Maltese and English
Special Provision & Resources if requested:Number grid and alphabet grid
Other Services given: at school - Speech therapy
outside school –Museum
Summary of progress
Physical Health: n/a
Language: Receptive – Sometimes she just understands one command at a time
Expressive – Sometimes she doesn’t express herself but instead she puts down
her head on the table and shows a sad face
Self-help Skills:Very independent with regards to toileting, lunch bag/box. She needs reminders
to ensure that what is needed for home is not left behind
Motor Skills:
Gross motor skills – Fine gross motor skills – age appropriate
Fine motor skills - Age appropriate. She is right handed and she has a very good tripod
with pencil grip however her handwriting is large.
Social Skills with peers & adults:During break time, she joins her peers in games, but sometimes she just look at the others playing
Attention & concentration: Short attention span especially after the mid-morning break and sometimes even from the morning. Needs constant prompting.
Motivators & reinforces: She goes to the classroom’s garden when she finishes her classwork on time.
Eye-Contact: Age appropriate...