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Observations

Watching and interpreting a learner’s behaviour and how they interact with learning in the school and home environment.

Ophthalmologist

A medically trained doctor who examines, diagnoses and treats diseases and injuries of the eye.

Oral language skills

How well the learner can speak, have conversations and demonstrate their range of vocabulary and knowledge.

Organisational ability

Refers to an individual’s ability to manage:

  • a task they are involved in
  • their time
  • items they need for school and clubs
  • items they need around them to help them learn
  • the structure of how they write a story/essay

Orthography

The accepted way of spelling and writing words. Using and understanding the conventional spelling system of any given language and includes rules around letter order and combinations as well as capitalisation, hyphenation and punctuation.

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