School Support
Sometimes the difficulty lies in the fit between the learner and the environment rather than in the child alone. This section brings together information about school choice, classroom support, therapies, accommodations and the practical support that can help a learner access school more successfully.
Existing content to surface: Meet the therapy team, It’s Not Giving Up, Beyond the Acceptance Letter, Somewhere Useful to Start, Maths or Maths Lit?, Mainstream vs Remedial vs Assisted Learning, Is It Time to Change Schools?, Building Bridges, Neurodiversity in the Classroom, Key Teaching Qualities That Empower Neurodiverse Students, Occupational Therapy in Schools, School Setup, Environment Before Effort and relevant webinars.
For learners who experience barriers to learning, the prospect of tertiary education can raise questions that go well beyond academic marks. Renie Sutherland, principal of The Bridge Assisted Learning School Morningside, believes that education needs to recognise the individual learner. But what does that mean when preparing young people for life after school?
Childhood friendships come with an astonishing number of unwritten rules. Adults sometimes make things harder by assuming every child should want the same kind of social life.
Meet The Bridge Morningside therapy team and see how speech, OT and psychology work together to support neurodivergent learners at school.
We say that children learn differently, then continue measuring almost all of them against the same narrow version of success.
For some learners, this works beautifully. They manage the subjects, examinations and pace of a traditional academic school route and move towards matric with a growing sense of possibility.
For twelve years, almost everything is measured.
