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Workshops

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Workshops will be tailored for the needs of the setting and audience.

They can be delivered face-to-face or through Zoom for schools, staff meetings, SSOs, parents, university students and allied health settings.

Time: Optimal workshop time is 2 - 3 hours.

Location: Face-to-face or Online Cost: $220 p/h (plus travelling and accommodation costs)

Content can be delivered over a series of events. Staff meetings, half day and full day time slots available. Subjects available to be tailored specific needs and audience and include but are not limited to the following:

Dyslexia:
A specific learning difficulty in reading and spelling

What dyslexia is - Diagnosis - Core difficulties for different year levels - Evidenced-based teaching strategies, programs, and resources - Intervention - Helping at home/school/workplace - Question time

Dysgraphia:
A specific learning difficulty in written expression and spelling

What dysgraphia is - Diagnosis - Core difficulties for different year levels - Evidenced-based teaching strategies, programs, and resources - Intervention - Helping at home/school/workplace - Question time

Dyscalculia:
A specific learning difficulty in mathematics (number sense)

What dyscalculia is - Diagnosis - Core difficulties for different year levels - Evidenced-based teaching strategies, programs, and resources - Intervention - Helping at home/school/workplace - Question time
Memory and processing difficulties
Types of memory difficulties - Processing difficulties - Core difficulties for different year levels - Considerations for differentiation - Strategies that help - Question time
Helping at home
Hands-on - What parents need to know about helping at home in any of the following areas that students with learning difficulties struggle with: oral language / vocabulary / organisation / phonics / reading / spelling / maths / comprehension / numeracy / school holidays - Question time These workshops can be tailored for a series of Parent in Education grants.
Teaching your child to read
Hands-on - What parents need to know about readers for their child - Phonic readers vs Levelled readers - Reading to your child - Listening to your child read - How to decode words - Blending - How to select readers - How to question for comprehension and build vocabulary - High frequency words - Fluency - Question time
Explicit synthetic phonic programs
Knowledge of sequences - How the programs work - Effective teaching strategies - Measuring progress - Analysing data - Phonic Readers: which series, placement, cataloguing - Question time.
Vocabulary and oral language
Building oral language - Receptive and expressive difficulties - Importance of vocabulary - Tiers of vocab - Scope and sequence - Vocabulary for reading - Vocabulary for writing - Strategies and activities for building and scaffolding vocabulary - Question time
Differentiating for diverse learning needs
Core difficulties of a range of learning difficulties - Considerations for building in differentiation in lesson planning - Strategies for all students - Options for means of response - Assistive technology choices - Question time.

Scaffolded writing for any genre

An approach that helps all students especially those with expressive written difficulties. Ideas for effectively building on prior knowledge - New vocabulary and concepts - Scaffolded differentiation - Using a 6 box for planning - Support for developing sentence - paragraph - grammatical structures - when and which assistive technologies to introduce - Question time.

Assistive technology

A range of assistive technologies are available to explore: Text-to-speech - Voice recognition - Word Prediction - Note taking tools - OCR scanning. Tips and trick of use - Selection of the right technologies - Building assistive technology into lesson plans - Adapted for staff or students - Question time - Practice time if the programs are installed.

Getting them organised

What executive functioning is and exploring the areas of task initiation and organisation - What are the blocks in staring a task - Why being organised is so hard - Importance of routine - Organisation in the home/school/workplace. Effective strategies; using colour; calendars; check lists; visuals; programs available on your devices.

SSOs – strategies that help students with dyslexia and other learning difficulties

A range of assistive technologies are available to explore: Text-to-speech - Voice recognition - Word Prediction - Note taking tools - OCR scanning. Tips and trick of use - Selection of the right technologies - Building assistive technology into lesson plans - Adapted for staff or students - Question time - Practice time if the programs are installed.

Open Topic: Made to meet the needs of your site

Sandy can adapt a talk to a tailored topic to meet your sites needs and current site plan.