Supporting Students with Dyslexia and Language Difficulties – Starter

What Will You Learn?

• This course provides an overview of the structured literacy approach and the recommended teaching strategies to support dyslexic students and students with language-related learning disabilities in both the classroom and small group (or one-to-one) settings. Participants will learn how to adapt instructional strategies and materials to help students learn more effectively in the areas of reading, writing and spelling. Importantly, participants will also examine the social and behavioural impacts affecting students.
• Firstly, the range of intervention strategies covered in this course is comprehensive. Participants will learn a spectrum of interventions from effective teaching strategies to well-known evidence-based interventions like the Orton-Gillingham Approach and the Lindamood-Bell method. As the targeted areas of intervention can vary based on the presenting profile and age of the student, the course covers a diverse range of strategies for different groups of students.
• Secondly, the course will also cover teaching strategies and differentiated instruction so that teachers will learn how to best support these students in the classroom.
• Lastly, the socio-emotional impact on the students using real case studies.