Staged Assessment and Response Network
Options for addressing Specific Learning Difficulties through StARNet - a Staged Assessment and Response Network
- Sometimes children don't learn easily.
- Something is getting in the way.
- It may a dyslexic difficulty - but often other factors are involved, and should be addressed.
- This chart gives some idea of these factors.
- For the learner, it can be a lonely, difficult and disheartening process.
The StAR Network
Lets you explore, one step at a time, how a specific difficulty or barrier may be affecting your child,
and how you might help. It starts with a simple questionnaire for you to complete and return.
- Depending on the outcomes, you can opt for:
- Fuller educational and/ or psychological assessment
- Tailored advice for home and school
- Referral to a specialist / therapist to address possible
underlying causes more directly
Dr. Charles Weedon
As well as having worked in a range of schools as Principal Teacher of Support for Learning, Dr. Charles Weedon is a registered Educational Psychologist.
He was a member of the Steering Group for the Scottish Government/ HMIe 2008 report on "Education for Learners with Dyslexia", and is a co-author of the Dyslexia Scotland and Scottish Government's "Assessing Dyslexia Toolkit"
Key Points
The StARNet process allows you an initial, comprehensive and inexpensive overview of some of kinds of factors that may be affecting learning or causing difficulties
You then make the decisions about how to proceed - some fuller assessment, educational and/ or psychological; and whether or not, and when to draw upon the specialist professional expertise available through the network partners