Dr. Olive Healy:

Yes. It is very individualised. Behavioural psychology is really good at instructional design, which is a set of skills where somebody can take a curriculum or a subset of it and design it to work for the person at his or her ability and skill level. Most people would wonder how someone who is non-vocal could read but of course, he or she can read through pointing to pictures or signing what he or she is reading and adjusting the type of response and the type of material presented. It is very individualised, so it does take quite a bit of work. People are looking at development of technologies that would feed algorithms so when somebody is not progressing in a lesson, it takes him or her out and back into getting more of that on which he or she needs success. When we see literacy difficulties, the approach is often to give children more of what they are finding difficult, whereas we ask what are the foundational skills we need to put in place to build on.