Educational Psychologist

Pre-Prepared Interventions and Information about SEN.
The table below lists an array of interventions that have usually been written by educational psychologists working through this site. They will have been tried and tested in the field over many years and offer a simple yet effective way forward. There are also more theoretical papers and documents that may be useful in providing insight and understanding.

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If you need the assessment and or intervention skills of an educational psychologist you should be able to locate a psychologist through this site.

Addictions and obsessions	A psychologist shows how to use construct theory to unpick addictive behaviour.
ADHD checklist	May give you some idea if this is a likely area of difficulty
Adult assessment of Dyslexia (SpLd)	All you need to know
An educational psychologist writes about her work.	Possibly of interest to those seeking more information about EP work
Anger Management	A complete intervention package
Assessment of Dyslexia	A short but very useful paper written by a very experienced EP. Plus link to his site.
Attention seeking behavior	An explanation with an intervention
Autism check list	May give you some idea if this is a likely area of difficulty
Bereavement	A short but helpful paper.
Children who find writing difficult	An interesting paper on alternative methods of recording, lots of suggestions
Children who get into trouble for the same thing repeatedly	A long but easily read paper with intervention strategies.
Costs of assessment	A Paper by our site manager who is not a psychologist.
Drug misuse, a list of indicators	This may put your mind at rest or alert you to a possible difficulty
Disabled Student Allowance (DSA)	This substantial grant is available to Dyslexics in higher education including nursing and O.U.
Dyslexia check list	May give you some idea if this is a likely area of difficulty
Dyspraxia checklist	May give you some idea if this is a likely area of difficulty
Elective mute? An intervention	This may help, proven strategy.
Exam concessions	What is possible and how to get them.
First 200 words	200 very useful words to learn how to spell and read
Lazy children	All you ever need to know.
Multisensory teaching	An easy to use approach
The Fry Readability Program	A very neat programme that allows anyone to check the reading age required to read any book or text.
Observation in playground and classroom	If you want to observe try these techniques
Observation an advanced technique	Once you have got the hang of basic observation try this.
Observation, checking a child is accessing the curriculum	Child not understanding what is going on? This will help establish the level of the difficulty.
How to set a reading book at the learning level	This is a really simple technique
Exclusion, permanent and temporary	Essential reading if you are in this process.
Inconsequent behavior	A long but easily read paper with intervention strategies.
IQ Testing	A short account of when these tests can be useful
Listening Skills	A comprehensive intervention package
Mind Mapping (Spider diagrams)	A very powerful technique, use with language difficulties or when children find writing difficult
Origins of Scotopic Sensitivity	How it came to be recognized as a treatment for wobbling or moving text.
Paired reading.	Use to give access to difficult books or to develop reading confidence
Phelp's Ruling	The whole of the Phelp's ruling from the House of Lords
Radical paper on EP practice.	EP's will love this or hate it.
Reading with your child	How to encourage reading out loud together
Relaxation therapy	How to run this intervention and when it would be useful
Ritalin	A description of this prescription medication
School won't recognize my child's special needs	In the UK this should become a thing of the past. Find out how to get your child's needs met (UK)
Scotopic sensitivity, Meares-Irlen syndrome	Text moving, wobbling or other visual effects of text? This might explain.
Social Skills	A comprehensive intervention package
The hostile child	How it happens and ways forward
Treating ADHD Without Medication?	A comprehensive intervention package
MANAGING PUPIL BEHAVIOUR -A Framework for Staff Problem Solving: Ideas for an Initial Session	Academic paper aimed at teachers, facing children with behavioral difficulties.
Reading pen review	An independent and impartial review of this technological aid.
Managing Attention Deficit Disorder in the Classroom	Lots of strategies for teachers
Managing a child with Autism/Asperger's syndrome:	Copy of an e mail advice that led to a successful outcome.
Role of an Educational Psychologist	What makes up the day to day work of an EP?
Underachievement	Read this and get angry. Help change the system.