Dyslexia Workshops 2010
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Dyslexia Workshops for 2010
TEACHING STUDENTS WITH DYSLEXIA
LEVEL 1 INTRODUCTORY COURSE
21st, 22nd and 23rd June 2010
This short course can be accredited in the Graduate Certificate of Education: Learning Difficulties at Edith Cowan University
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Presenters:
Annette Brock
Alison Playford – Educational Therapist holds a Diploma from the Dyslexia Institute in the UK and has been the Specific Learning Difficulties Teacher at St. John's Grammar School, Belair, SA and the Educational Services Co-Ordinator with the Dyslexia SPELD Foundation WA. She has been teaching students with dyslexia for 18 years. The course is designed to provide teachers with an understanding of the implications of the learning style of students with dyslexia in the classroom so they can cater for their needs. It will also equip teachers to tutor one or two students in a withdrawal situation. This four day program is based on research (Oakland, Black, Stanford et al 1998) which indicates that remedial instruction for students with dyslexia needs to incorporate:
- Highly structured phonemic-instruction training with a heavy emphasis on the alphabetic system
- Drill and repetition are also necessary to compensate for difficulties in verbal working memory
- Multi-sensory methods are required to help anchor verbal information through non-language mental representations.
- Learning objectives need to be highly sequential because the logic of language structure may escape these students.
- Comprehension and metacognitive processes need to be taught to assist these students in the conscious use of language rule systems to guide their reading and spelling
The course combines theory and practice, but practical teaching strategies are the main focus. Observation of Alison
Playford tutoring children is part of the course. Teachers/Speech Pathologists/Psychologists and Tutors who attend the
3 day workshop will be given a certificate to verify their attendance and completion of the course.