Crafting Effective Recommendations in Diagnostic Reports: a Guide for Assessors of Primary Aged Children - 06 Feb 2025 to 06 Feb 2026: Patoss

Crafting Effective Recommendations in Diagnostic Reports: a Guide for Assessors of Primary Aged Children - 06 Feb 2025 to 06 Feb 2026: Patoss

Overview

  • Date(s)
    06 Feb 2025 - 06 Feb 2026
  • Cost
    £56.00
  • Provider
    Patoss
  • Delivery type
    Distance
  • Course level
    Intermediate
  • Course summary

    Presented by Louise Selby, this course offers guidance for how to write impactful and streamlined recommendations in diagnostic reports for primary aged children. 

    In this course, Louise will offer guidance on best practices for writing impactful recommendations for primary-aged children. She will cover strategies for crafting personalised recommendations tailored to each child's unique educational setting, ensuring they are both meaningful, streamlined and effective.

     

  • CPD credit hours
    1 hour and 30 minutes
  • Course themes
    SpLD testing methods, interpretation, report writing, feedback and test materials
  • Audience
    Assessors, Support
  • Website
  • SASC Code
    SASC-20241106-1279

Description

In our report recommendations, our goal is to give everything we possibly can to enable the child to succeed. But how can we ensure our recommendations remain accessible and useful?

We'll begin this course by exploring core principles for writing effective recommendations, focusing on how to integrate what we've learned about the child, their educational setting, and their home environment. We'll discuss the balance between ideal goals and practical solutions, weighing quick wins against long-term strategies. Streamlining and simplifying recommendations to enhance usability will also be part of our conversation.

We'll consider how to give actionable advice for classroom strategies, including methods for delivering information, fostering metacognition, integrating assistive technology, and implementing reasonable adjustments. We'll examine specific guidance on supporting reading and writing skills, tailored to the unique needs of each child within their school context.

This session will not focus on specialist tutoring, but we’ll review school-based interventions, assessing various approaches, understanding their pros and cons, and identifying criteria to select the best fit for individual needs. 

In the course delegates will consider in detail:

How to make personalised and streamlined recommendations

How to use what we know about the child, their educational and home setting to make purposeful recommendations

How to make practical and useful recommendations that can be used in class and intervention

Learning outcomes

Delegate will

Feel confident in making accessible and useful recommendations

Gain ideas for making recommendations that are impactful for the learner in school and intervention

Course prerequisites

This course is for assessors, both qualified and in training