Inclusion and diversity

Learning difficulties: autism and dyslexia

A five-day course on learning difficulties, attention deficit and dyslexia: how they affect pupils and what teachers can do. It covers individual learning plans, support during lessons and tests, cooperation with parents, and the use of cognitive and visual maps, with professional visits to schools that work with students with disabilities.

5 days
Certificate of attendance
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Who it is for

Teachers of primary, secondary and vocational schools
Adult education teachers
Teachers of special educational needs
Teacher trainers, careers officers, educational guides and counsellors
Headteachers, principals and managers of schools and of organisations offering adult or vocational education

What you will learn

Understand the main types of learning disabilities
Understand how learning disorders affect pupils
Find solutions to the problems students with learning disorders face
Create and implement individual learning plans, with the parents

By the end of the course, you will be able to

Recognise the main learning difficulties and their effect on pupils
Write and apply an individual learning plan with the family
Choose suitable support for lessons and tests
Use cognitive maps with students with attention deficit or dyslexia

Programme, day by day

Day 1Learning disabilities and individual plans

Introductory meeting: practical arrangements, timetable and venue
Icebreakers and introduction to the course
Types of learning disabilities
The impact of a learning disability on the student
Creating an individual learning plan for pupils with learning disabilities

Day 2Individual plans, parents and support

Deciding its content and implementation strategies
Cooperating with parents
Tips for working with pupils with learning disabilities
Support during teaching, learning and tests: types and how to choose
Professional visit to a school with students with disabilities

Day 3Knowledge construction and active learning

Learning and knowledge construction
Information processing and multimodal integration
Knowledge and its representation: the metacognitive dialogue
Meaningful learning and the role of education
Active and multimodal learning: from perception to cognition with active maps
Limits of learning: main deficit areas and how they evolve

Day 4Attention deficit and dyslexia

Attention deficit disorder: characteristics and cognitive style
Progressive learning experiences with cognitive maps
Dyslexia: how dyslexic learners process information
Reading texts and "reading" maps; maps for visual thinking
Professional visit to an association with a school for students with intellectual disabilities

Day 5Maps, assessment and closing

Creating maps for different types of students from the same topic
Dyslexic learners, central coherence theory and learning by constructing
Learning assessment and meta-learning: using maps to measure progress
Professional visit to a vocational school
Final workshop
Certificates ceremony

How the course runs

Predominantly active methodology
Case studies and practical examples
Group work
Activities built around the participants' personal and professional interests

Certificate of Attendance, issued by BragaMob, and Europass Mobility, issued by your school and completed with us. Accommodation, meals, transfers and cultural integration activities can be added to the course: your quote lists each service you choose. Dates on request.

Inclusion and diversity