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News Letter number 9 - part
Contents
This newsletter contains
information on:
Holidays
Summer School
Costs
SNAP
Parking
Helping your child
Free Lesson?
Tutors
Leaving?
Holidays
The holiday closure dates
(inclusive) will be:
Summer Holidays. Schools close on the 21st or 22nd
July. Our Centre will be closed on Friday the 23rd July to prepare
for Summer School which will start on 26th July and continue to the
26th August. We plan for our Centre to be closed from the 30th
August to the 3rd September and will resume normal working on the 6th
September, although schools will start back on the 1st September. We
hope this will not be inconvenient as it will allow us to have a week’s summer
break as well as allowing students to adapt to the new school timetable.
October Half Term - 25th to 29th
October 2004.
Christmas 2004 - 20th December 2004 to 3rd
January 2005.
February Half Term - 14th to 18th
February 2005.
Easter Holiday - 25th March to 8th April 2005.
May Bank Holiday - 2nd May 2005
May Half Term - 30th May to 3rd June 2005.
Summer School
During the school holidays we will be offering reduced price lessons, half
price assessments and FREE evening discussion groups.
Why not bring your friends or neighbours along?
Reduced price lessons. One hour sessions from 9.00am
to 1.00pm , Monday to Thursday each Summer School day we
will be providing tuition using our successful programme SureSpell. The first
lesson in a week will cost £20, the second £15, the third £10 and the fourth
£5. If you took all four lessons you would get a massive 40% off our normal
prices.
Our programme is most successful when a student uses it for two or more
hours a week. During term time this is sometimes difficult. The summer holidays
gives us more opportunities to help.
Summer School will run from Monday to Thursday every week from 26th
July to 26th August.
Half price assessments. Prior to a new person attending summer school, we
will be carrying out a slightly shortened version of our standard assessment
but without the school input to the Special Needs Assessment Profile (SNAP). We
will be assisting parents in providing this information. The whole assessment
will take approximately 90 minutes and cost £45. Full SNAP and FDLC charts and
feedback will be provided.
Evening discussions for Adults.
Free evening discussions lasting about an hour starting at 7.30pm in our centre. The dates/subjects are:
Fri 23 Jul - Understanding dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADHD.
Thu 29 Jul - How to help the dyslexic child with special activities.
Wed 4 Aug - How to help the dyslexic child with diet and music.
Tue 10 Aug - How to help the dyslexic child by building self esteem.
Mon 16 Aug - Techniques we use to help the dyslexic person
Costs
Standard assessments - Our standard
assessment including a SNAP assessment is conducted for all students before
they receive tuition and costs £90.
Full written assessments - These are
sometimes needed for exam concession or to support a statement. They take a
long time to write up which is reflected in the price which, including SNAP, is
£250. However, many people who contact us believe that this is the best value
professiona lly written assessment available in this area.
Lessons - The current price for normal tuition has not
changed and is:
£25 for the first hour in the week and £19
for any subsequent hours in the same week.
Cancellation - Our policy for cancellations is un-changed and is:
For those students who notify us more than
24 hours in advance that they will be away, a retention fee of £6 per lesson
will be charged. This does not cover the cost of the tutor’s time.
For those students who notify us less than
24 hours in advance, a fee of £10 will be charged.
For those who do not give any warning of
non-attendance or are late, the full fee will be charged. Unfortunately no
extensions can be given to those who are late, as other students are usually
waiting.
SNAP
Just over a year ago we
started using the Special Needs Assessment Profile (SNAP) from the educat
SNAP is a comprehensive,
structured and systematic assessment technique that maps each person's own mix
of problems onto an overall matrix of learning, social and personal
difficulties. It is a computer-aided diagnostic tool providing a profile of
learning difficulties across fifteen different areas from ADD to visual
processing and working memory difficulties. SNAP points the way to the most
appropriate teaching and/or specialist provision and supports the work at home
and school by the provision of personalised self-help and information sheets.
As most of our current
students and parents know, a SNAP assessment programme consists of:
a structured questionnaire
being completed by parents and schools to give an initial ‘outline map’ of the
person’s difficulties and their strengths.
responses are collated using the SNAP
computer program, indicating the need for any follow-up tests. These diagnostic
‘probes’ yield a more detailed understanding of difficulties.
a computer generated profile or graph is
produced as well as specific guidance on support.
The
fifteen specific learning difficulties and conditions profiled by SNAP are:
Attention
Deficit Disorder (ADD); Dyspraxias; Dyscalculia; Dysgraphia; Essential fatty
acid; Hyperactivity; Hyperlexia;
We
would be happy to provide more information should it be required.
Parking
Airshow
week (19 - 25th July) - Only during
the mornings, the police inform us,
there will be one way traffic in Park Road but otherwise there should be
no local traffic difficulties.
Normal - There is a
restriction to parking shown by a double yellow line on our side of the road.
Parking outside our house causes inconvenience to both those using the road and
those using the path. Please be considerate and if you are leaving your
vehicle, even for a short time, we request you park across the road and avoid
obstructing driveways etc.
Future - There are plans to calm the traffic in Park Road by
either one way traffic, road restrictions or speed bumps or even all together.
We believe that it would be better to allow parking on both sides of the road
with passing spaces which would naturally reduce traffic quantity and speed. If
you want to find out more details then visit the Rushmoor Council Office.
Helping Your child
We are still convinced that
much help can be provided at home to help a dyslexic person. Some of the ways
that we can help are:
Drinking plenty of water, especially just
before we need to use the brain, is very helpful.
Essential Fatty Acids - Many dyslexic
children are deficient in the fatty acids found in oily fish such as sardines,
pilchards, salmon and mackerel etc. Because of other chemicals in fish (e.g.
mercury) we are advised to only eat them once a week. To provide these
essential fatty acids many of us need to take omega 3 and omega 6 supplements.
We recommend Efalex, EyeQ and MorEPA as they have been proven effective.
Balance correctly. Exercises to improve
balance for 10 minutes a day will be very helpful. Exercises include using a
balance board, balancing using a large ball, standing on a cushion or using
other techniques involving balance.
The brain learns better and retains information
longer when both sides of the brain are working together. Help to link them by
regular exercises such as writing with both hands, polishing with both hands,
clapping and rhyming games with a partner, juggling with balls or scarves etc.
We recommend that parents buy a set of juggling balls and join their children
in juggling for five or ten minutes a day.
Most of us learn better when we use more
than one of our senses. However, there are many situations when we can only use
one. Find out how your brain learns and then try to use this method more often.
For example, we may learn better with visual, aural or kinaesthetic (feel or
touch) techniques. If we are being taught visually and we are an aural learner,
we may find learning easier if we speak or mouth things we need to learn.
The importance of these methods
for helping dyslexic students cannot be over-emphasised.
Free Lessons?
We
advertise in many different places and ways. By far the most effective method
is by word-of-mouth, either from satisfied parents or from enthusiastic tutors.
Hence, we are happy to reward any parent spreading the news by giving two
free lessons if their referral attends for more than a month. If we forget,
please remind us.
Tutors
We
are sorry to say goodbye to two of our tutors. Alex has just left and has been
with us for 21 months. We have appreciated his enthusiasm and dedication.
Stephanie is about to leave and has been with us for 20 months. We have
appreciated her calming influence and tutoring skills. We will miss them both.
Leaving?
Don’t forget to tell us a month
before you want to leave so that we can plan a final assessment if necessary.
Many thanks
Christine and Alan
94,
Tel: 01252
515348
Email: info@FDLC.co.uk
Homepage: www.FDLC.co.uk
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