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How a new, simple technology can help children with learning disabilities in the classroom: Podcast

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Synopsis

Dimi Stathopoulos is an occupational and speech therapist who has a lot of experience working with children with Austim Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and a host of other learning disabilities and difficulties.The occupational and speech therapist asserts that conditions such as ASD have "become more prevalent in the last 20 years", with only 1 in roughly 10,000 children diagnosed with the condition 20 years ago. Now, that figure is approximately 1 in 100 and is predicted to be as common as 1 in 10 in the future.As conditions such as ASD have become far more common in society, they have also become commonplace within classrooms. While many teachers may have some or a lot of knowledge of such conditions, knowing how to manage them at the coalface can be a daily challenge for both the teacher and the student if no strategies are in place.For a while now Stathopoulos has been using a new technology called My Burrow in her own clinic and recommending it for teachers to us