Sample surveySample survey

I’d be very grateful if you could you complete this brief questionnaire on how your school tackles some special needs issues. There are only a few questions, and your input would be very useful. We’ll be reporting back on our findings in the near future and it may well be that we will be able to share information between schools and gain additional information on areas which are causing particular concern.

1. Thinking about pupils whom you suspect might be dyslexic but who have not been formally statemented by an educational psychologist.

Do you give them additional support?

Thinking about pupils whom you suspect might be dyslexic but who have not been formally statemented by an educational psychologist. Do you give them additional support? Yes – if we believe they are likely to be dyslexic we treat them as such whether they have seen a psychologist or not.

Yes – but such pupils do not get as much extra support as those who have been statemented.

No – we only give additional support to those who have been statemented.

2. Where products and materials are used for pupils who are, or who might be dyslexic, which materials do you use?

Where products and materials are used for pupils who are, or who might be dyslexic, which materials do you use? Junior phonics

Multisensory phonics

Dyslexia Instruction

Other

3. Roughly how many pupils in your school get special help on the grounds that they have been statemented as dyslexic or you believe that they are dyslexic, even though they have not been statemented?

Roughly how many pupils in your school get special help on the grounds that they have been statemented as dyslexic or you believe that they are dyslexic, even though they have not been statemented? 0 - 5

6 - 10

11 - 20

21 - 30

Over 30

4. Thinking about pupils whom you suspect might be dyscalculic (i.e. have specific learning difficulties related to maths) but who have not been formally statemented by an educational psychologist. Do you give them additional support?

Thinking about pupils whom you suspect might be dyscalculic (i.e. have specific learning difficulties related to maths) but who have not been formally statemented by an educational psychologist. Do you give them additional support? Yes – if we believe they are likely to be dyscalculic we treat them as such whether they have seen as psychologist or not.

Yes – but such pupils do not get as much extra support as those who have been statemented.

No – we only give additional support to those who have been statemented.

No – we don’t recognise dyscalculia as a specific learning difficulty.

5. Where products and materials are used for pupils who are, or who might be dyscalculic, which materials do you use?

Where products and materials are used for pupils who are, or who might be dyscalculic, which materials do you use? The Dyscalculia Centre

Overcoming dyscalculia

National dyscalculia resources

Other.

6. Roughly how many pupils in your school get special help on the grounds that they have been statemented as dyscalculic or you believe that they are dyscalculic, even though they have not been statemented?

Roughly how many pupils in your school get special help on the grounds that they have been statemented as dyscalculic or you believe that they are dyscalculic, even though they have not been statemented? 0 - 5

6 - 10

11 - 20

21 - 30

Over 30

7. How many pupils do you have in your school?

How many pupils do you have in your school? Under 50

51 - 100

100 - 250

250 - 500

500 - 750

750 - 1000

1000+

8. Which of the following best describes your school?

Which of the following best describes your school? State funded primary

State funded secondary

Private primary

Private secondary

Private all-age

Academy

Other