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Anita M. Hughes Chartered Educational Psychologist |
“Learning is the balance between
anxiety and curiosity” This experiential
workshop will explore how our emotions help or hinder in the learning
process. Participants will have a chance to understand their own learning
style as well as seeing their children’s learning from a different
perspective. It is hoped that those attending the workshop will feel
energised and engaged in their own learning and be better able to tolerate
the struggles they witness in children’s learning. The workshop will be of
interest to both parents and professionals involved in children’s learning
from infancy to adulthood. |
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Registered
Consultant with dyslexia@bay |
"Unlocking visual
skills to bypass dyslexia" Good visual skills enable
a child to spell well, to read fluently with good comprehension, to think
sequentially and write a well ordered story or essay. As well as helping with
'reading, writing and spelling', enhanced visual skills can also help to
alleviate some of the non language based symptoms of dyslexia such as
difficulty remembering and following instructions, lack of concentration,
poor sense of time and difficulty telling the time as well as giving a
child's self esteem a welcome boost. |
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Monday By Tess Tatham |
'From Specialist Teaching to
Educational Therapy' An approach that
seeks to further understand children's emotional blocks to Learning. From Specialist
Teaching to Educational Therapy Tess Tatham-Miller
is an Educational Therapist working in two multi-disciplinary Child and
Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) teams in Hampshire. She has worked, for over twenty five years,
in a variety of Educational settings including mainstream secondary and
primary schools, special schools, unit provision attached to a mainstream
secondary school and four different LEA support services that focused on
different aspects of children’s learning difficulties. She has been
fascinated and constantly challenged by ·
how children learn ·
why some children fail, or can’t get started in learning basic
skills ·
why others become so “stuck” in their learning that they
simply stop ·
why some get it “wrong” and “rubbish” their work ·
why some reject all attempts from supporting adults to help
them. What can such
adults do to further support these children and make sense of what the
children are trying to communicate by their often inappropriate and
challenging behaviour? This session is
designed to answer such questions and illustrate how Tess’s development from
Specialist Teacher to Educational Therapist evolved from her work with such
children. |
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7.30pm 8.00pm |
The 38th Annual General Meeting
of the West Surrey Dyslexic Aid Association starting at 7.30 Agenda items will include: ·
Approval of the Minutes of the 37th AGM ·
Reports from Chair and Treasurer ·
Approval of Accounts ·
Nomination and election of Officers and Committee for the Year ·
Modification of the normal meeting days to progress from
Monday one meeting to Tuesday the next meeting etc. starting in January 2008 "The
Forgotten" A talk by a
'dyslexic' woman (with a dyslexic daughter), who has managed to overcome her
learning difficulty and achieved an honours degree in Psychology in 2000. The talk explores
the journey of a dyslexic child, through school, progressing as a teenager
onto adulthood within the education system. Without early detection,
preferably during Primary School, the dyslexic child gets 'forgotten'.
Moreover, continual criticism of school work sentences the dyslexic child to
a life lacking self-worth causing low self-esteem and under achievement. However, with the
right help and the knowledge of how a 'dyslexic' ticks - all dyslexics of any age can
achieve their full potential. |
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Mary Noon |
How it feels to be Dyslexic This multi
sensory presentation aims to help non specialists understand how it feels to
be dyslexic. It can be frustrating dealing with dyslexics but the ability to
empathise will help provide a framework for teachers and parents to offer the
necessary support and encouragement. Mary will involve you in tasks to
simulate the dyslexic world and offer suggestions for multi sensory learning
and why it works. Mary has a
teaching background, previously teaching her degree subject to A level. She
is now a senior practitioner at the
Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre where she tutors on the OCR level 5 course. Mary
also supports dyslexic students at various secondary schools, completes
assessments and both creates and delivers study skills courses - HADC |
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Glynis Lavington Music and Dyslexia |
Glynis Lavington
is Consultant and Practitioner specialising in the field of dyslexia and
higher education. She has worked for many years in the higher education sector
as an assessor, tutor and trainer. In recent years she has worked with
contemporary musicians both students and tutors. She provides training and
support for tutors and has co-designed an innovative Part-time Certificate in
Education & PGCE (Contemporary Music) Post Compulsory. Glynis also
creates and delivers study skills courses and supports dyslexic students at
various higher education institutions. This seminar presentation will explore the
specific needs of a dyslexic student studying music in terms of the
difficulties the student may have, the support which a tutor can provide, and
what to look for as an assessor. Case study information will be considered,
and participants will have the opportunity to look at some of the challenges
dyslexic musicians face, and consider how a compensated student struggles to
understand the difficulties they are facing within the language of music. |
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Andrea
Clifford - Poston ‘What is
School for a Child?’ |
In this talk Andrea
will explore what school symbolises for a child psychologically and how this
may impact on their ability to learn. How in the Early Years, children
are not only trying to learn to read and write, but they are also coping
psychologically with the classroom replicating family life, with the class
teacher as the parent and their classmates as their siblings. At the ‘Tween’
stage school begins to symbolise adult demands just at a time a tween is
beginning to make a bid for independence. And of course, as teenagers, we are
making demands for academic success in public exams just as the teen is
almost totally preoccupied with their internal world of developing sexual
relationships and thinking about leaving home. |
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Jen Johnson |
Jen
Johnson worked for two years in the Farnborough Dyslexia & Learning
Centre before going to university. She studied Speech Sciences at University
College London for 4 years where she gained a 2:1 and also qualified for
membership of the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists. Upon
graduation in 2005, she worked for Islington PCT with under 5s with
communication difficulties for 6 months. She then went on to work with adults
with brain injuries and their resulting communication and swallowing difficulties
in the Her talk will be on the English language, breaking it down and
building back up again. In the session I will talk about: 1. the sounds of the
English language; making them and identifying them 2. phonological
awareness and why its important for literacy 3. the psycholinguistic
model which is the current model for how we understand and produce language |
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New Speakers |
WSDAA are always
looking for new speakers for our meetings who are able to give a relevant and
interesting presentation to the membership.
If you would like to nominate a speaker, please write to The Chair,
WSDAA, c/o |
The WSDAA is a registered Charity (270533) and a founder member
of the British Dyslexia Association (BDA).
Comments on this page should be emailed to Web @ WSDAA.org.uk
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