Other Training sources

For the many training events offered in London and other centres and online by the national Patoss organisation see https://www.patoss-dyslexia.org/All-Events

‘The British Dyslexia Association’ provides information, advice and support to dyslexic individuals, parents of dyslexic children and teachers and other professionals. These include useful online videos free to view. https://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/about/about-the-british-dyslexia-association

The ‘Hampshire Dyslexia Association’ runs an advice line for dyslexic individuals, parents and teachers. See https://www.hantsda.org.uk Also many links to online resources for helping dyslexic individuals learn at home.

‘Dyslexia Action’ provides courses for teaching, assessment and CPD related to specific learning difficulties. These have now moved online. A variety of related resources are on sale. See the website at https://dyslexiaaction.org.uk/courses-and-qualifications/

The charity ‘Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health’ (ACAMH) has launched a new CPD platform for anyone interested in supporting young people’s mental health. Topics include autism, eating disorders, anxiety and self-harm. There are short videos and quizzes through to lectures and live-streamed events. Visit acamhlearn.org

Here are a couple of examples of the Patoss National offer of many webinars – some suitable for parents too – on a wide range of subjects related to dyslexia see https://www.patoss-dyslexia.org

Avoiding Common Mistakes when Assessing – Louise Green This on-demand webinar is designed to cover various strategies to help avoid some errors that can be made during the assessment process. Louise will look at ways to help work more efficiently in administrating tests, marking subtests, converting scores, reading tables in test manuals, recording results, and writing up assessments.

What Makes an Effective Primary Assessment? Webinar: SASC Authorised Effective early primary assessment for Dyslexia/SpLDs is essential to help to comply with the Code of Practice and SASC guidance. This webinar will show what makes an effective assessment of the primary phase.

‘Futurelearn’ runs numerous online courses produced by British and overseas universities on their specialist fields. Popular courses now running include: Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching, Understanding ADHD: Current Research and Practice, Managing Behaviour for Learning and others. See https:www.futurelearn.com/courses

Physical distancing and SASC guidelines for Spld Assessments . The full guidance paper is available from the Spld Assessment Standards Committee downloads page at  sasc.org.uk/Downloads.aspx