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Effective study skills that develop the thinking skills of the learner with dyslexia has been demonstrated to be an effective factor in helping the learner to compensate for their learning difference. It is not the smartest student who achieves their potential; it is the student who knows how to study, (Tonjes and Zintz, 1981).Study skills are those competencies associated with acquiring, recording, organising, synthesizing, remembering and using information, (Devine, 1981). It has been argued that technology can motivate students with dyslexia (Smythe, 2010). This course offered by Jane Dupree an expert both in study skills and use of technology for remote learning, will marry the two, helping an educator to plan a successful study skills.

This course will enhance your assessment practise of literacy disorders. It will enable you to apply up to date research to your assessment practise and the reading and writing of assessment reports.
Making sure your testing, conclusions and recommendations of your diagnostic reports are secure and based on research is vital for your assessment practice. Both for your own assessment practise and the reading and writing of diagnostic assessment reports requires an understanding of the multiple deficit model as the most scientifically grounded causal model of literacy disorders.

This course provides you with the most up to date research on the development of literacy skills to enhance your assessment and teaching practice. To either effectively assess or teach a child with dyslexia requires an understanding and appreciation of the cognitive and non-cognitive process involved in the development of reading accuracy and comprehension skills. This course enables you to both develop and enhance your knowledge of these processes. The teaching and assessment of literacy difficulties is based on an understanding of the cognitive processes required in the mastery of literacy skills, in particular the important roles played by language and phonology.

Online learning is increasing the reality for most of our learners and creates unique and particular challenges for those with a learning difference. This course, conducted by an online expert, will help you improve your use of Zoom as a learning platform to support learners with an SpLD. Online learning has become central to recent learning and even after the pandemic comes to an end it is believed that some kind of blended learning approaches will exist throughout the educational system, throughout all Key Stages. As we live in a digital age it seems likely that educational services we offer will also increasingly move online.

Neurodiversity is a term which was first coined in the late 1990s to describe conditions such as Dyslexia, Autism and ADHD as not disorders but rather more like variations or differences of the human brain.
Understanding Neurodiversity enables you to effectively communicate and know your learners. Through effective motivational strategies and understanding characteristic of behaviour rising from the barriers that having a neurodiversity creates in learning will enable you to help your learners achieve their full academic potential. Understanding Neurodiversity enables you to effectively communicate and know your learners.