| | |  | | | | | | | | | | | Dear Janice Seabourne
 I hope you have now received your issue of the new look Dyslexia Review.
It is under development at present so we want to hear from members about what they would like to see. We have been receiving some very positive feedback from a wide range of people and will try to implement as many of the suggestions as we can. We do anticipate that the journal will increase in both numbers of features and page length in future issues. We hope to present a publication with a broad range of contributions that appeals to our very diverse membership. Should any members wish to contribute to either the Dyslexia Review or the Guild Gallery, we would be very pleased to hear from you. Without your comments and goodwill we would not be able to keep improving the quality of our services to you and to thousands of people with dyslexia/ SpLD. If you have not received your copy of the Dyslexia Review or would like to give us some feedback please contact guild@dyslexiaaction.org.uk or call me, Jan Seabourne, Guild Administrator on 01784 222342. Jan Seabourne Guild Administrator |
 Dyslexia Action Update on Department of Education Bids
| Specific project funding for 2011-13 |  Dyslexia Action have been successful in several bids to the Dept.of Education for specific collaborative projects. Particularly pleasing is the bid which Dyslexia Action led on, this is the partnership with RNIB to develop a digital service for curriculum texts for students in secondary education. This will be a new service with great potential for growth and development and work started in April of this year.
The Dyslexia Trust was also funded for two years and we were part of a bid led by Catch 22 to support yourng people at risk in secondary education. We wish to thank our former CEO, Shirley Cramer, for all her effort in supporting these bids. | | | | |
Dyslexia Action Update on Department of Education Bids | Specific project funding for 2011-13 |  Don't forget that Guild members get a discount on all items in our shop, such as assessment materials, digital literacy resources,
Dyslexia Action publications such as Units of Sound, Dyslexia Institute Literacy Programme resources, numeracy resources and books, all of which appear in our product catalogue. It also contains games, puzzles, reading rulers and tinted exercise books. These resources are useful for specialist teachers, teaching assistants and parents. You can access the shop online here. | | | | |
Training Update - Dyslexia Review Correction | Mathematics Difficulties: Current research and future directions by Dr Fiona Simmons | We apologise for the ommission of the diagram that should have accompanied Dr Fiona Simmons article on page 18 of the Dyslexia Review Volume 22 Number 1 Spring 2011. We have attached the diagram as a pdf document, Please download the file by clicking this link. | | | | |
Training Update - New International Course | International Diploma Course | This new course is for teachers and adults in supporting roles currently employed in a learning environment outside the UK. It is delivered online and provides a sound theoretical understanding of dyslexia and how this learning difference affects everyday life. Follow this link for further details | | | | |
Training Update - The Guild Summer Conference: CPD: Focus on the Practitioner | Thursday 30th June 2011, 9.30 to 4pm, St. Catherine's College, Oxford University |  Don't forget to book your conference place as June will soon be upon us and places are filling up fast!
We are very excited to have Dr Kate Cain as one of our keynote speakers. Kate has just published a new book and we will be offering up two copies in our prize draw as well as a special 20% Discount Card for Wiley publications to all our delegates. We also have Dr Chloe Marshall speaking about Specific Language Impairment and Dyslexia, as well as Dr Barry Johnson whose much anticipated seminar on Assessment: Meaning and Interpretation is aimed at diagnostic assessors of clients of any age. Everyone is welcome so please pass the details on to your colleagues. Details of the conference, seminar sessions and how to register are available here. | | | | |
More Guild Membership Benefits | Discounts on Audio Books and a chance to win a car! |  Dyslexia Action have recently teamed up with We Read 4 You, an exciting new retailer of Audio Books with thousands of titles to chose from such as J.R.R.Tolkein's The Hobbit, to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Watership Down to the Tales of Beatrix Potter. There is something for everyone.
To get this new partnership off to a great start, go to the website and when you have finished shopping, go to the basket, enter voucher code DAG25 and click the Validate Code button to receive 25% off the total. £1 from every book bought will be donated to Dyslexia Action. Visit www.weread4you.com/dyslexiaaction and start listening to your favourite books today. Chance to win a Fiat 500! The Foundation for Social Improvement (FSI) have organised The Great Big Small Charity Car Draw to help small charities like Dyslexia Action, raise much needed funds for our brilliant cause. Tickets are just £2 each and £1.90 from each ticket sold will be given to Dyslexia Action. Tickets can be bought online from our website and are on sale until the 16th September, the winner will be drawn on the 25th October. If you or anyone you know would like to sell tickets, please contact Clare Appleby. The raffle is open to everyone over the age of 18, so tell your friends, family, students, parents of students, your postman or anyone else you bump into. Good luck!  If you win perhaps you might consider donating your old vehicle to Giveacar, the UK's largest scrap car and vehicle donation service. They organise the free collection and recycling of any car or vehicle, anywhere in the UK. Cars are either disposed of and the value of the scrap metal donated, or placed into an auction and the sale price donated. To donate a car please click here. For further information on these partnerships please contact Clare Appleby, Corporate Fundraising Manager on 01784 22353 or email cappleby@dyslexiaaction.org.uk. | | | | |
Job Opportunities at Dyslexia Action | Part time Leicester Centre Manager vacancy | A Centre Manager is required for our busy Leicester Centre. Application forms and job descriptions for this and other vacancies are available on our website. Dyslexia Action is an Equal Opportunities Employer and some posts require a CRB enhanced disclosure. | | | | |
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News - The Royal Society | Brain Waves Module 2 Neuroscience: Implications for education and lifelong learning | Brain Waves Module 2 is the second in a series of reports by the Royal Society on developments in neuroscience and their implications for society and policy. In the report some key findings are set out about how the brain learns. It argues that our growing understanding of how we learn should play a much greater role in education policy and should also feature in teacher training. To encourage a stronger dialogue between neuroscientists and those involved in education at all levels, The Royal Society website is open to comments on the topic, see the link below. More details on the Brain Waves Study, including Module 1, are available here | | | | |
Events - Annual Safeguarding Conference and Exhibition | 8th June 2011, Twickenham Stadium | The Children's Workforce Development Team of the LBRUT Education, Children's and Cultural Services are offering a conference in Twickenham, Surrey on Child Protection. This is aimed at Teachers, Advisors, CPD consultants, Senior Police Staff, Health Professionals and EarlyYears Managers. For more details visit www.mondale-events.co.uk | | | | |
News - Adults - Keep Out! | The Guardian launches a new adult-free books website for children | Research carried out for World Book Day suggests that a growing number of teenagers are using the new technologies not just to chat to friends but for serious reading. Samples of 505 teenagers between 13 and 18 show that 40.8% had read a book on a computer, one in five have read one on a mobile phone, and 13% on a Tablet or iPad. The website will include contributions from an editorial panel of young people from all over the world who decide which books they want to discuss and how to do it.The site is divided into zones, 7 and under, 8 to 12, and 13yrs plus. Go to guardian.co.uk/childrens-books-site | | | | |
News - Save the Children Briefing | 1.6 million children across the UK live in severe poverty | A report from Save the Children says that 29 local authorities in Great Britain have more than one in five children living in severe poverty. The Briefing is available as a pdf from the Save the Children website | | | | |
News - Literacy Update | Report reveals British school children's reading habits | This independent study, conducted by Professor Keith Topping, comes at a time when the UK has slipped down to 25th place in the OECD ranking of reading, and that more than half of all 5yr old boys in England are failing to make sufficient progress at school according to Department of Education statistics. The report found Roald Dahl remained the most popular children's author and it includes sections on what high-achieving children read and what struggling children read. The report is available from this link What Kids are Reading and from Renaissance Learning | | | | |
News - Once Upon a Time... | Parents who shun fairytales 'miss chance to teach children morality' | In her new book, The Genius of Natural Childhood, child development expert Sally Goddard Blythe claims that fairy tales such as Rapunzel and Cinderella are crucial to children's development. She says that they nuture moral behaviour and show the strengths and weaknesses inherent in human nature. "Far from demonising the dwarfs, the story of Snow White shows that underlying the physical diversity there can be greater kindness and generousity than is found in the stereotypes of beauty and wealth so lauded by celebrity-worshipping cultures." See Sally Goddard Blythe website The book is due out in May. | | | | |
News - The Sutton Trust | Boost for disadvanted pupils | The Sutton Trust is to lead a £125 million programme aimed at improving the achievement of disadvanted pupils in under-performing schools. The Government-funded education endowment fund will hand out grants to "innovative and bold" proposals from schools, teachers, local authorities and charities. It has been inspired by President Obama's Race to the Top, which uses a similar competition for grants to encourage school reform. Impetus Trust, another charity, will be a partner in the project. The Sutton Trust website has more details. | | | | |
News - Educational Psychology Employment Shake-Up | Could some children miss out? |  Department for Education ministers have started a consultation on the future of "ed psychs" and their training, suggesting the profession cuts ties with councils and instead works directly for schools or parents. These proposals, which suggest professionals should have a wider role beyond working on statutory statement assessments, have been critised by professional groups amid warnings that some children could miss out. The consultation is also considering the development of a new training path for practitioners.
The DfE is consulting a specially formed group comprising representatives from training bodies and key stakeholders. Evidence will be gathered until June this year. An interim report is due in July and the final report and recommendations are due in September. New training arrangements will begin in September 2013, and the DfE will follow current arrangements to fund courses for educational psychologists in 2011 and 2012. See Times Educational Supplement Friday 8 April 2011. | | | | |
Events - Dyslexia and the Brain | The 6th Nata Goulandris Memorial Lecture | University College London is hosting this memorial lecture to be presented by Professor Cathy Price on Monday 20th June 2011. For further information contact crl@psych.york.ac.uk Click here for more details | | | | |
Events - Raising Literacy Levels | Let's get them all reading | This one day course on 17th June 2011 is aimed at School Library Services and anyone who is keen to promote reading within their school, and links directly with current government polices, giving attendees ideas for: - practical strategies for promoting reading
- creating a whole school reading programme
- utilising reading resources and exploiting them with pupils and staff
- using book awards to promote reading
For more details contact Sonia Constantinou. Tel: 020 8826 4868, email: sconstantinou@apsch.org.uk | | | | |
News - Headteachers struggle to balance the books | Four in 10 schools to cut staff this year | Nearly four in ten schools are planning to reduce staff numbers over the next 12 month according to a survey of senior leaders. For more details see Times Educational Supplement, 29 April 2011 | | | | |
News - The Reading Agency launches the Summer Reading Challenge | Julian Barnes chooses TRA's reading initiatives for young offenders | Libraries accross the UK are geting ready to introduce children to a summertime circus spectacle that will keep them reading thoughout the summer holidays. The Summer Reading Challenge is now in its 13th year and reaches 760,000 children aged 4 to 12yrs via the UK library network. It is created and run by The Reading Agency (TRA), the independent charity working to inspire people to read more, and is supported by childen's publishers. See The Reading Agency website for more details. Julian Barnes has won the £40,00 David Cohen Prize for Literature 2011. The winner gets to choose who gets the £12,500 Clarissa Luard Award, aimed at young writers and readers. Julian Barnes chose TRA's reading initiatives for young offenders. He said: "There will always be young writers; will there always be young readers? Our literacy levels are falling, and - disgracefully - public libraries are threatened by closure." Miranda McKearney of the Reading Agency said: "We'll be able to take our Six Book Challenge into ten new institutions. We can help 900 young offenders build their literacy skills and confidence, with all that will mean for their future lives". For more details of the Six Book Challenge, click here. | | | | |
News - Reading and Dyslexia in deaf children | Research project needs children with dyslexia to take part | Many deaf children have reading difficulties but there are no reading tests designed especially for them. The research project entitled "Reading and Dyslexia in deaf children" will produce scores for deaf children in Year 6 on a number of deaf-friendly reading tests. This is the first step in developing a standardized reading test which teachers may use in the future to check on the reading progress of deaf children in their class. The project is funded by the Nuffield Foundation, a charitable trust and runs until May 2012. The project is looking for both deaf and hearing children who will be in Year 6 from Sept 2011 onwards, (aged 10-11yrs) to take part. Deaf children should be severely-profoundly deaf at any reading level. Hearing children should have a diagnosis of dyslexia so their scores can be compared with the deaf children's to see if there is a comparable profile. If you know of any children who may be suitable to take part, please see the project website Reading and dyslexia in deaf children for conditions and consent forms or contact Zoe Shergold at Zoe.Shergold.1@city.ac.uk Tel: 020 7040 8466 Department of Language & Communication Science, City University, London. | | | | |
Guild Gallery | Next issue due September | The next Guild Gallery will be published towards the end of September. If you would like to submit an item of news or details of an event please contact the Guild Administrator, guild@dyslexiaaction.org.uk for more details. . | | | | |
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