Psychometric and neurocognitive assessments are important when assessing need. But what about individual strengths? My background is in neuroscience although I also work as an Assistant SENCo within my local school. I wanted to design a useful tool so assessing neurocognitive strengths would be easy for individuals without a neuroscience background. Once these are found then designing bespoke intervention becomes an easier task. While some neurodiversities can make certain tasks more difficult, they can equally be of benefit in other areas. Neurodiverse minds have a great many strengths and schools need various tools to help them recognise what they are for each individual. The NSC is a non-diagnostic tool that can help professionals working in schools identify where the neurodiverse strengths are for each individual student. Neurodiversity assumes everyone everywhere has neurodiverse strengths. The ethos behind the NSC is that it is down to each professional within every school to do everything reasonably possible to search for these strengths and attempt to develop them in a proactive and positive way in order to develop the students learning abilities. I hope people find it useful.

This is to help teach Macbeth to students that require a high level of differentiation and multisensory learning. It is a useful tool to help students understand the role of the witches in Macbeth. It can also be used as an aid in revision. The process I use: Study topic Provide students with laminate pages Look at the laminated pages together Discuss relevant issues Turn over individual laminated page and see what the student can remember using a wipe board marker (so that the laminated page can be cleaned afterwards). I find this method benefits students with Dyslexia on the Autistic Spectrum those that struggle with abstract concepts EAL students

A comparison table summarizing issues, debates and approaches in psychology.