CPD & Training
CPD and Training
Find training opportunities to address identified areas. Either short CPD or long courses. Providers have shown where they link to the Framework, signposting relevant stages and strands. Provided by a range of organisations, training providers are responsible for the content and accuracy of their information and the training they provide. A listing does not indicate an endorsement either actual or implied by the Framework team or the Dyslexia-SpLD Trust. Any further information should be directed to the relevant training provider using the contact details given.
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This year 2021/22 assessing for 25% extra time has changed and this may have a greater impact for some candidates. This course will help you understand these changes and the data that you need to collect.
Introduction
The most significant change in the JCQ criteria 2021-2022 is the application...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Online/Distance
Region
Various Regions
This event will increase delegates’ understanding of how verbal memory difficulties affect learning and how to help. Memory difficulties are a barrier to learning and are a key deficit in many Specific Learning Difficulties, including dyslexia.
Verbal memory difficulties (especially working...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Online/Distance
Region
Various Regions
This is a series of four lectures by Neil MacKay which looks at effective teaching strategies to support learners who find literacy a challenge by the renowned international educator Mr Neil Mackay. Neil developed the concept of dyslexia friend approaches to teaching and learning. Please note any...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Region
Various Regions
This series of Lectures by the international expert on Dyscalculia and Maths Learning Difficulty - Steve Chinn, will enable both teachers and assessors to improve their knowledge of teaching maths. Themes running through the course will be ‘effective communication’ and comments on the recent Ofsted...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Online/Distance
Region
Various Regions
A literacy programme for Home and School presented by Mary Moran. This course is a comprehensive study on teaching a child to read using Structured Literacy (SL). It is suitable for all students in first level education, primarily, but in particular dyslexics and struggling readers. The instructor...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Region
Various Regions
This course is aimed at practising assessors who assess in the pre-16 age group or those working with adults who wish to further their knowledge of assessing in this age group. The course will broaden knowledge and understanding by considering a range of neurodiverse needs, incidence and effects of...
Training type
Accredited CPD
Training method
Online/Distance
Region
Various Regions
Learners with a learning difference find learning to spell more difficulty then learning to read, (Hulmes and Snowling 2009). This webinar will enable an educator to use various evidence-based spelling strategies which will improve a child’s spelling. Spelling is more difficult for learners with...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Online/Distance
Region
Various Regions
Effective intervention to improve a learner with literacy disorders, must be focused on interventions which are proven to be evidence based in terms of their effectiveness.This course will enable you to evaluate the effectiveness of literacy interventions based on the scientifically proven use of...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Online/Distance
Region
Various Regions
Semantics is the study of the meaning of words and sentences - many students have difficulties understanding both the meaning of words and how relate to sentence. This webinar, presented by Helen Driver, teaches strategies to improve the child’s understanding of what they have read.
The...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Online/Distance
Region
Various Regions
Students today are digital natives, their brains are geared for the digital world. Showing students accessibility features that exist on most systems will enhance their learning experience. This webinar is presented by Jareth Johnson
A glance at some of the assistive technology readily available...
Training type
Non-accredited CPD
Training method
Online/Distance
Region
Various Regions