There is an emerging group of pupils with CLDD (Complex Learning Difficulties and Disabilities) at our school. We have discovered that this requires a responsive pedagogy that touches our children exactly at their need. These pupils have conditions that coexist. These conditions overlap and interlock creating a complex profile. The co-occurring and compounding nature of these complex learning difficulties has resulted in the development of personalised learning pathways that recognises the children's unique and changing learning patterns.

Our Children with CLDD present with a range of issues and combination of layered needs, e.g. mental health, relationships, behavioural, physical, medical, sensory, communication and cognitive. They need informed specific support and strategies which include transdisciplinary input to engage effectively in the learning process and to participate actively in classroom activities and the wider community. Their attainments may be inconsistent, presenting an atypical or uneven profile.

He has trained staff significantly on how early childhood experience, inhibition of primitive reflexes, development of postural reflexes and movement effect brain development. He has developed a thorough assessment procedure to determine how much Neuro Motor Delay might be a contributory factor towards a child's difficulties. Mr Griffin has worked with the school and parents/guardians to find out if this is part of the underlying cause. He has looked at some of our children's early development and what clues the body gives about the way in which information is transmitted to and from the brain.

He regularly prescribes a course of therapeutic exercises to be carried out daily, which has resulted in our children having significant improvements in all areas of learning. Most recently Mr Griffin has worked with the school on using a course of special music therapy called Musica Medica. This part of the treatment has used music in a multisensory way to stimulate different parts of the brain at the same time, helping to improve the networking within the brain. It has made a significant impact on several children providing a profound calming effect.

Mr Griffin continues to investigate, help and support our children and families to resolve the physical factors underlying learning and behavioural difficulties. We can't thank Pete enough for providing our staff with the necessary skills to identify signs of Neuromotor immaturity in our children presenting with a range of specific learning difficulties and behavioural problems.

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