Dyslexia Scotland, Stirling Business Centre, Wellgreen, Stirling, FK8 2DZ

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Dyslexia Scotland, Stirling Business Centre, Wellgreen, Stirling, FK8 2DZ

Registered in Scotland No: SC 153321. Scottish Charity No: SCO00951

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PROGRAMME

08.30 - 09.15 amRegistration and Exhibition Opening

09.15 – 09.30 amWelcome by DYSLEXIA SCOTLAND

Introduction byDR GAVIN REID - Conference Chair

09.30 – 10.30 am Rob Long - This Way Up!

All behaviour is complex, and there is rarely one explanation for it. One thing is sure, the way some learners try to solve their problems can be challenging and frustrating for school staff. When confronted with such testing circumstances it is helpful if we have sound guiding principles to fall back on. In this session we will explore the theories behind these and see how they can be of practical use to busy school staff.

10.30 – 11.00 amTEA/COFFEE BREAK

11.00 - 12.00 noonDr. Laura-Ann Currie, HMIe

Dr. Currie’s presentation will talk about the HMIE report ‘Education for Learners with Dyslexia’. She will discuss the progress made in relation to building capacity within the education system to develop skills and expertise in the identification of dyslexia. She will also look at dyslexia within the context of Curriculum for Excellence. The session will be interactive looking at how children learn to read and the particular difficulties which children and young people with dyslexia experience.

12.00 - 1.45 pmL U N C H B R E A K

During the lunch break there will an optional session, which will be run twice at:
12.15 -12.45 pm and1.00 -1.30pm
In this session, Jennifer Drysdale will focus on the use of ICT to support learning and the development of inclusive methods for teaching children with Dyslexia.

1.45 – 2.45 pmCHOICE OF THREE WORKSHOPS

Workshop One:Fran Ranaldi and Paul Nisbet- ‘Accessible Resources’

The session will focus on the practicalities of developing accessible curriculum resources at school level and how these resources can benefit dyslexic learners. It will also provide a brief overview of the duties involved for teachers and education authorities.

Workshop Two: Dr. Margaret Crombie and the ‘Assessing Dyslexia' Working Group

This session looks at the ‘Assessing Dyslexia’ online resource for teachers, which was developed in 2009/10. There will be a chance to view the ‘Assessing Dyslexia’ toolkit, hear about the philosophy behind it and consider its applicability for your own context.

Workshop Three: LochaberHigh SchoolDyslexia Lochaber - Online revision materials

Lochaber High and local charity Dyslexia Lochaber joined forces to create an online bank of audio and revision materials for pupils. The innovative venture blends latest technologies with traditional methods, effectively delivering revision opportunities across the curriculum. The presentation will include some of the background, a look at the conception of the project, in addition to screen shots of the site itself and some short video clips of pupils who've used, or are about to use the site.

2.45 – 3.00 pmTEA/COFFEE BREAK

3.00 - 4.00 pm PANEL SESSION(Chaired by Dr. Gavin Reid)

A panel of three experienced teachers discussing how they have supported their pupils using different strategies, including audience participation if time allows.

Shirley Illman: the planning, content and delivery of the West Lothian P7 Transition Programme and an overview of how this is followed up in S1.

Pamela Macdonald: a paired reading programme developed at CastlemilkHigh schoolthat actively teaches pupils with significant reading difficulties how to read. This paired reading programme is intended for pupils from P6-S2 who have failed to achieve on established school reading programmes.

Christine Gallagher: ‘Learn to Play, Play to Learn’ alternative reading strategies – a games approachto teaching spelling/language developed in the south side of Glasgow. This will cover a variety of games developed over the years with anecdotal evidence of their success and why games are important in learning.

4.15 pmClose

Dyslexia Scotland reserves the right to amend or change details without prior notice.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Rob Longis a Chartered Educational Psychologist who works independently with schools and colleges and teachers and other professionals who are concerned with children and young adults. Previously, Rob lectured in Psychology before working as an Educational Psychologist for Wolverhampton and then Devon Education Authorities. During this time he managed a Primary Behaviour Support Team and also supported Secondary schools in reviewing their behaviour management policies and practice.

Rob’s main area of interest is supporting children who face social, emotional, and behavioural difficulties. He is committed to developing, through training and project work, an understanding of these children and providing solutions and practical help to school s staff involved with them. His recent work has involved him working with adoptive and foster parents as well as being involved in developing a resource for schools supporting Children in Care. He has written and had published several books to support the work and training that he provides. Rob’s books offer teachers and support staff many practical ways to manage difficult situations.

Dr. Laura-Ann Currieis national specialist for Dyslexia within Her Majesty’s inspectorate of education (HMIE). She is District Inspector for two education authorities and is part of the inspection team which inspects educational psychology services, education authorities and community learning and development. In addition she inspects special schools and units, and mainstream primary and secondary schools. Prior to joining the HMIE she was a principal educational psychologist and has researched widely in the area of literacy development.

Jennifer Drysdaleis a principal teacher of Learning Support with Fife Council and has many years of experience. She has specialised in the use of ICT to support learning and is committed to developing inclusive methods for teaching children with Dyslexia. She is currently on secondment to develop the Workshop for Literacy in Early Years classes across Fife.

Fran RanaldiThe main focus for Fran’s continued research and professional activity is accessibility across the curriculum and dyslexia. In 2004 she published a book on dyslexia and Design Technology on behalf of the BDA and Gavin Reid.

Fran was seconded to HMIe to work on the 2008 Dyslexia review for HMIe and then to the Scottish Government to focus on dyslexia issues and the development of new guidelines for EDESPERA 2002 - accessibility across the curriculum. Fran is currently working in pupil support within a secondary school and is seconded part time to her authority to focus on dyslexia, accessibility digital resources/exams. She has presented CPD and seminars in the UK and Norway for various dyslexic and educational organisations. She is involved in using and developing digital resources for the SQA, LTS and CALL Scotland. In 2009 she co-authored a guide for teachers on the development of accessible resources with Paul Nisbet.

Paul Nisbetis a Senior Research Fellows at CALL Scotland, The University of Edinburgh. CALL (Communication, Access, Literacy and Learning) Scotland is the Scottish centre of excellence in the application of ICT to support pupils with additional support needs. Paul has recently been involved in leading a number of innovative national developments that help dyslexic pupils access the curriculum for excellence, such as the introduction of SQA Adapted Digital Exams; ‘WordTalk’, a free text-to-speech program for reading Microsoft Word documents; ‘The Scottish Voice’, a high quality computer voice licensed for Scottish education; and the Books for All programme and Database, which are helping schools and pupils make and access learning resources in accessible, alternative formats.

Dr. Gavin Reidis an independent educational psychologist in Vancouver, Canada, and he also has private practices in Scotland, Switzerland and the Middle East. He is visiting professor in the Department of Educational Psychology and Special Education at the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Vancouver, Canada. He is also a consultant to the Institute of Child Education and Psychology, Europe (ICEP) and a consultant on learning disabilities at the Centre for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in Kuwait. He has been a consultant for the Open University since 1999 and is on the course team for the Difficulties in Literacy Development course. He is a co-founder and director to the RedRoseSchool for children with specific learning difficulties in St. Anne’s on Sea, Lancashire. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of Educational Studies, Moray House School of Education, University of Edinburgh from 1991-2007. He has currently 25 books in print in the area of teacher education in the field of dyslexia, literacy learning styles and motivation and classroom management.

Dr. Margaret Crombiehas worked in the dyslexia field as a practitioner and researcher. She has researched the effects of dyslexia on the learning of a modern language in school. She has co-written the book 'Dyslexia and Foreign Language Learning' with Elke Schneider and has contributed to many more publications. She chaired the Dyslexia Scotland Assessments Working Group responsible for developing the online Assessing Dyslexia toolkit.

Shirley Illman has more than 30 years experience of teaching in Primary Education in schools in London, Surrey, Stockport and Scotland. For most of her career she has been a class room practitioner with added responsibility for special needs. At present she is Principal Teacher for West Lothian Literacy Services which is an outreach service supporting primary and secondary pupils with Specific Difficulties (Dyslexia). As part of its role, Literacy Services provides a Transition Program for pupils moving from P7 to S1. The presentation will describe the planning, content and delivery of the P7 Transition Programme and an overview of how this is followed up in S1.

Pamela Macdonaldis Faculty Head of Support for Learning (learning and behaviour) at CastlemilkHigh School, Glasgow where she has been for 6 years. She has taught in mainstream primary, secondary and ASN schools as well as being a peripatetic support teacher on three occasions. She has had a paper published in NASEN Support for Learning Journal (February 2010) on Paired Reading and Phonics.

As well as developing the paired reading programme that she will talk about she has also recently completed a short pilot programme with pupils who have significant reading difficultes in two associated primary schools with very promising results. They are looking at the possibility of incorporating this as part of their primary secondary transition programme. This is a flexible approach to reading and can easily complement existing commercially produced packages that schools already use. It is easy to introduce and run and can be supervised by PSAs. It uses a combination of look-say and phonic teaching as well as visual, kinesthetic and auditory learning techniques and develops skills and competences promoted in a Curiculum for Excellence and Assessment is for Learning. A home paired reading programme also actively encourages parents and guardians to support pupils at home.

Christine Gallagher originally trained as a primary teacher and graduated from JordanhillCollege in 1975. Christine worked in the primary sector for 5 years and left to have her family. She returned to work in 1984 in the SEBD sector. She worked in residential schools, both primary and secondary. As a result of inclusion LawmuirResidentialSchool (12-16 year old boys) closed and Christine joined Psychological Services and worked initially in developing a Learning Support Department in one primary school and starting one in another. Then she was a Mainstream Support Teacher, Network Support teacher and she is, at present, working as a Cluster Support Teacher. She works in the south side of Glasgow across 7 primary schools. She has had a number of books published by Prim-Ed on Literacy, Maths and Spelling.

Conference Exhibitors

The Exhibition Area will open at 8.30 and be available throughout the day during lunchtime and tea/coffee breaks.

APPLICATION FORM

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Tickets cancelled prior to 3rdSeptember will be reimbursed but will incur a £30 cancellation fee. Tickets cancelled after this date will not be reimbursed.

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