SpLD - Dyspraxia Support Strategies

You may need to:

• give clear, simple instructions and constant reminders, both oral and written

• provide a reasonably quiet working environment

• organise activities to develop listening skills and attention skills, such as sound tapes

• encourage learners to present ideas using ICT

• incorporate recommended motor coordination exercises into a PE programme

• organise games and activities requiring cooperation and turn-taking

• practise a range of sequencing activities, such as pictorial activity or story sequences, word and sentence sequences, days, months or number sequences

• develop role-play and drama activities, including puppets

• help pupils organise their written work by using writing frames

• praise every effort and successful achievement of new skills

• practise tracking activities, such as mazes, dot-to-dot, tracing, letter shapes.