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information - Direct, Explicit & Systematic

Notes, Checklists and Educational and Instructional Strategies in Special Education, Gifted Education, Reading, Spelling, Written Expression, Mathematics and Study Skills
&
 Parenting Information
Material developed by Stewart Sykes and Colleagues.

I am very happy to share the material I have used in my teaching, lecturing, research and private practice over many years. I have assembled the material under several Sections which usually contain three types of information -

	Basic Definitions, Conceptual Frameworks and Notes
This material will provide practitioners with clear and concise definitions, conceptual frameworks and notes that will assist in forming the rationale for the selection of educational and instructional approaches and other intervention strategies.

Checklists

These informal checklists should enable practitioners to identify strengths and weaknesses in students and assist in the selection of appropriate educational and instructional strategies and other interventions.   Many of the available formal tests/inventories are expensive, often beyond the resources of many schools and most can be only administered by special education teachers and/or psychologists. My checklists are basically diagnostic in nature. They should enable the user to identify key learning strengths and weaknesses, error patterns and important trends that should have direct, explicit, practical instructional and/or management implications.

	Educational and Instructional Strategies and other Interventions
These strategies, both educational and psychological, are a central component of my psycho-educational reports and have been found to be helpful in supplementing the approaches and methods used by teachers and psychologists with students with special needs.

This is an active website and is subject to regular updates. The information contained on this website has been gathered over the author’s professional experience of some 40 years of direct involvement with children and adolescents with special needs.

This online resource has been prepared by Dr. Stewart C. Sykes - Psychologist. MAPS.
Former Associate Professor of Psychology and Special Education and Director of the Krongold Centre for Exceptional Children. Monash University, Australia.

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Copyright © 2008 Dr. Stewart C. Sykes. All rights reserved.
Revised: 8-September-2008