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> Supporting students with dyslexia - 12th June, Oxford Brookes University
>
> Participants:
> Support and teaching staff who help dyslexic students with study at
> University
>
> Starting point:
> Dyslexic students have thinking strengths in non-linguistic
> intelligences. Their language skills are below the level of their
> other thinking skills; they are variable and unreliable.
>
> Aims:
> The workshop will look at how dyslexic students can be enabled in
> Higher Education. At the end of their courses they should be
> independent learners who are able to select their individual best
> ways of approaching any academic task; they should know how to adapt
> their thinking to be effective employees. The workshop will lookat
> teaching and learning that can promote these goals.
>
> Format:
> The workshop will be divided into four sections:
> * An overview of dyslexia
> * Higher order thinking
> * Learning preferences
> * Provisions for dyslexic students
> The workshop will involve activities for the participants, as well as
> discussion and presentation of ideas.
>
> Background:
> The workshop is based on the support work at Oxford Brookes
> University which includes an undergraduate module in which dyslexic
> students can explore their individual best ways of thinking and how
> to apply them to academic study.
>
> Outcomes:
> The participants will have experienced dyslexia simulations and so
> have a better understanding of what it is like to struggle with words
> in a dyslexic way. The simulations will have been discussed in terms
> of
> * current research
> * teaching programmes
> * alternative learning styles suitable to dyslexic students
> * provisions that promote a level playing field
>
> About the leader:
> Ginny Stacey, D.Phil (Oxon), AMBDA, Dip. SpLD (HADC), is the Support
> Tutor for Dyslexic Students at Oxford Brookes University. Although
> she is dyslexic and cannot do mental arithmetic, she won a State
> Scholarship through mathematics to read physics at Oxford University.
> She was one of the co-authors of the Singleton report Dyslexia
> Support in Higher Education: policy, provisions and practice, Uni. Of
> Hull, 1999
>
> If you are interested in attending this course, please contact:
>
> Fiona Smith, External Events Administrator, OCSLD,Oxford Brookes
> University, Helena Kennedy Building
> Headington Hill Campus, Oxford OX3 OBP
>
> Tel: 01865 484618
> Fax: 01865 484622
> email: [log in to unmask]
>
> For a full list of external courses:
> http://www.brookes.ac.uk/services/ocsd/3_courses/listcourses.html
>
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