Early Years: Children, Schools and Nurseries

The service will typically involve a full diagnostic assessment set out in a detailed report, which can be tailored to meet institutional needs. The report will include recommendations for further action; these will drawn upon my extensive knowledge of local education, including my personal contacts with practitioners in related specialist areas such as occupational and speech & language therapies.

Strict confidentiality is, of course, assured.

I Can Help With…

Problems with Learning in School and Early Years:

• Delay in developing basic literacy or number skills;
• Slow processing of visual information;
• Low retention of information;
• Inability to concentrate or remain on task;
• More general or hard-to-pinpoint difficulties with learning.

Problems with Performance in School and Early Years:

• Inability to manage workloard;
• Inability to follow or keep up with what’s going on in class;
• Underperformance in examinations and written tests;
• Generally unsatisfactory work or progress.

Behavioural Difficulties at Home, School and Nursery:

• Disruptive, defiant and generally hard-to-manage behaviour, including temper tantrums;
• Inappropriate behaviour;
• Fidgeting and distractedness.

Social and Emotional Difficulties:

• Delay in developing social skills;
• Sense of isolation and loneliness, difficulty with making friends at school;
• Shyness;
• Difficulties with communication.

I Can Provide…

Psychological Assessment of Children:

• with special educational needs or specific learning difficulties;
• with learning, behavioural or emotional difficulties;
• with special examination requirements.

Psychological Advice to Children:

• on problem-solving;
• on planning work and carrying out tasks
• on keeping on top of school workload.

Psychological Advice to Parents:

• on learning and emotional difficulties;
• on their child’s learning profile;
• on making the most of a child’s strengths and addressing weaknesses;
• on managing children’s behaviour and ways of improving behaviour at school;
• on ways to promote children’s learning;
• on monitoring and reviewing children’s progress.

Expert Witness Services:

• for Special Educational Needs and Disability Tribunal hearings.