Literacy Interventions: What's Proven and What's Not

Teaching intervention approaches which are typically methods that aim to remediate children’s underlying phonological and language deficits - with resultant improvements in their literacy achievements. Approaches such as these contrast sharply with so-called ‘miracle cures’ that abound in the field of dyslexia (and other developmental disorders) for which only limited validating evidence is available. Examples of good versus inadequate RCTs will be presented. The aim of this webinar is to encourage teachers to look at the available teaching methods and programmes with a critical eye, to judge them according to whether they have been scientifically proven or not and to feel confident that the ones that they choose will really help.