Children: Dyscalculia

(asked on 23rd September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if he will publish guidance on teaching children with dyscalculia on his Department's website.


Answered by
Vicky Ford Portrait
Vicky Ford
This question was answered on 6th October 2020

The department has contracted with the Whole School Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Consortium, led by nasen, to provide support to the SEND schools’ workforce.

The Consortium has produced resources and training to enable schools to review their special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) provision to ensure that they can identify and meet the needs of pupils effectively. The department has also funded a range of organisations to develop specialist resources and training to support teachers to identify and effectively meet the needs of pupils with autism, specific learning difficulties, including dyscalculia and dyslexia, speech, language and communication needs, sensory impairments, and physical disabilities.

All materials funded by the department are hosted on the SEND Gateway, an online portal which offers education professionals free, easy to access to high-quality information, resources and training for identifying and meeting the needs of children with SEND. The SEND Gateway can be accessed here: https://www.sendgateway.org.uk/.

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