For 25 years, I’ve been working with college students of all ages who battle with literacy, not simply spelling and studying but in addition reminiscence of what they learn and comprehension. Not a kind of I’ve supported has naturally and reliably realized to visualise phrases earlier than I defined how. That’s 100% of scholars.
One very proficient scholar, who may learn fabulously nicely however actually struggled to spell, realized the significance of the way to visualise phrases in about quarter-hour and mentioned, “Do you imply to say that if I had realized this at 4 years previous, all that stress and price we went by means of may have been prevented?” I replied with “in all probability sure, sorry.”
So we merely want to take a look at a baby’s capability to recall psychological pictures of images and phrases in that hole earlier than any formal evaluation aged 8 years previous. Ready till youngsters are 8 years previous creates large stress for the kid and oldsters plus prices to their household and college, to not point out the education they miss.
There’s often a phonics screening check in yr 1, so we now have produced a “pleasant visible check-in” for each youngster in Reception 12 months. That is positively not a check however only a dialog about utilizing psychological pictures for footage, comprehension and phrases. Now we have expertise of doing this, and if they’re scuffling with any side, we are able to merely educate them the way to make it simpler. It’s greater than doubtless the strudent has simply by no means thought to make use of this talent. In reception yr, 4-5-year-olds have heads full of images, so they may simply affirm that and realise how they’ll be taught successfully and handle their footage.
If you wish to be taught extra about this, do be a part of our free CPD assembly on Tuesday, 1st April at 8pm UK time, to get the abstract of this easy “pleasant visible check-in for tinys”. (This occasion, that’s usually for practitioners, is, this time, open to all concerned with methods to help Early Years, together with mother and father and grandparents). “An oz. of prevention is value a ton of remediation”. You’ll learn to discover the very important fundamentals wanted for literacy earlier than a baby develops important challenges. As well as, each youngster will be capable to retain and enhance all these fabulous visible expertise they had been born with.
As soon as your reception class all have priceless expertise about utilizing visible reminiscence, it is possible for you to to maneuver on to Scaffolding Simple Literacy beneath and to reinforce any phonics program. The schedule for different free webinars is beneath.
Scaffolding Simple Literacy offers each mother or father and instructor easy expertise to alter what is going on with a phonics-only technique for each youngster. In 60 minutes, you’ll uncover why your distinctive visible scholar struggles with a phonics-only strategy and assist them to merge orthographic (footage) of phrases with phonics, to hurry up all elements of literacy.
In case you have any questions, your subsequent steps are as follows:
- Give me a free name and learn the way to make literacy simpler on your youngster/scholar: +44-7970-854388
- Be a part of one in every of our free group teaching calls beneath
- Signal as much as the month-to-month publication that provides you with all of the dates of occasions.
- If you wish to be taught extra about the entire story of visible thinkers and learners, please sign-up to our common publication right here:
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Empowering Studying practitioners coach youngsters and adults, with or and not using a prognosis to learn the way to make literacy, maths and ADHD simpler, constructing on their visible strengths. We educate privately and in faculties. We even have one practitioner who’s operating workshops for grandparents to grasp their ADHD youngsters.
- For literacy we use an strategy that permits college students to activate the a part of the visible mind that retains letters and phrases for fluency, in order that they don’t must get caught in decoding for ever. It is a very easy step for artistic visible thinkers. College students will nonetheless use phonics for brand new phrases, however they may first have constructed up an enormous vocabulary of phrases visually to allow good literacy. We additionally use their visible reminiscence for comprehension and enhancing handwriting.
- For ADHD we use 5 easy steps to regulate psychological pictures, audio chatter and improve focus.
Listed below are the workshop dates for the following 2 months of 2025. Do join and be a part of our neighborhood:
Monday seventh April 8pm UK time Neurodiverse Strengths and Challenges – there are a lot of neurodivergent strengths which can be nicely value exploring to present you completely different views on neurodiversity. Click on right here to ebook at no cost
Tuesday eighth April at 8pm  UK time Exploring Psychological Footage, for many who really feel they don’t seem to be as artistic as they was. Come and discover your personal psychological pictures with us. Click on right here to ebook at no cost
14th April at 8pm UK time: Simple Literacy, enhancing Dyslexia and Maths: Be taught the very important talent of visualising phrases for diminished anxiousness, Dyslexia and growing fluent spelling and studying. Click on right here to ebook at no cost
April fifteenth at 8pm UK time: Thriving with ADHD: Many tricks to study enhancing ADHD on your youngster and also you with out remedy.  Click on right here to ebook at no cost
Monday twenty first April at 8pm UK time: Recuperate your power, together with enhancing respiration and sleep – For many who are missing power, feeling overwhelmed and would really like some expertise to enhance their power banks. Click on right here to ebook
Tuesday twenty second April at 8pm A brand new class to assist mother and father and educating employees to help neurodiverse youngsters. Discover among the key matters that may actually make a distinction shortly. Click on right here to ebook
We run common webinars to cowl these important expertise.
To discover extra of the information and methods we now have for neurodivergent youngsters and adults, do click on right here. There’s even a free introductory video there. You’ll profit from all of the expertise we now have gained during the last 25 years working with neurodivergent college students.
My title is Olive Hickmott, I’m a well being and studying coach, specializing in working with neurodivergent college students. I might be happy to help you in any method I can.
You might be welcome to contact me olive@empoweringlearning.co.uk
Right here you can see my studying platform for a few of my coaching programmes and free dwell webinars  www.visualkids.co.uk
You will see that different helpful info and Practitioner Coaching at http://www.empoweringlearning.co.uk
Right here is my YouTube channel for extra free sources:Â https://www.youtube.com/c/OliveHickmott
My newest books are:
The Elephants within the Classroom: utilizing each scholar’s pure energy of Psychological Imagery to reinforce studying: Neurodiversity by means of the lens of psychological Imagery.
Bridges to Success – Tips on how to rework Studying Difficulties
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