Provisional
Programme:
0900 –
0945 Registration and Coffee
0945 –
0950 Introduction
by Chair
0950 -
1000 Dyslexia
in Further and Higher
Education
– Recent
Developments
1005 –
1050 Dyslexia and
VI (Visual Impairment)
1055 –
1110 Coffee
1110 – 1155 The Difficulties faced by Students with Deafness and Dyslexia
1200 –
1245 Dyslexia and
EAL (English as an Additional
Language)
1250 -
1335 Buffet
Lunch
1335 –
1420 Dyslexia when
combined with Chronic Medical
Conditions
1425 –
1510 Present
Developments in Technology
1515 –
1530 Coffee
1530 –
1600 The Maximizer
Database
Speakers will
include:
Dr Chris
Singleton,
Senior Lecturer in Educational Psychology, University of
Hull
Dr Chris Singleton, who will give the
general address at the start of the day, chaired the National Working Party on
Dyslexia in Higher Education, the 1999 report of which has had a major impact in
assessment of and provision for dyslexic students in universities. He is
currently a member of the DfES working group on DSA and specific learning
difficulties, which is developing revised guidelines on assessment procedures
for dyslexia and specifications for the training and qualifications of
non-psychologists involved in such assessments.
Prof. John
Stein,
Lecturer in Neurophysiology, Oxford University Medical
School
Prof. John Stein is a Professor of Physiology at
Oxford University. He studied medicine at New College, Oxford and St Thomas's
Hospital, London. He started a career in Neurology, continuing his training in
London, Leicester and Oxford. But
he decided that basic research into the visual guidance of eye and limb
movements might be more useful, and he was appointed tutor in medicine at
Magdalen College in 1970. Since
then he has been studying normal and abnormal eye and limb movement control in
animals, neurological patients and dyslexics. He began to study the role of eye
control in dyslexics in 1978, and has been pursuing the hypothesis that
dyslexics' problems may result from impaired low level perceptual visuomotor and
auditory processing that is caused by abnormal development of magnocellular
neurones in the brain. He does not
cook fish; his brother, Rick Stein, does not do neuroscience!
Dr Ian
Smythe,
International Dyslexia Consultant
Dr Ian Smythe is a private consultant on dyslexia
working world-wide with governments and non-governmental organisations. The
assessment protocol developed for his PhD that looked at dyslexia in different
languages has now been used in a number of countries. He is the main
editor of the International Book of Dyslexia (Wileys, 2004). His current
activities include leading an EU funded project on provision for the dyslexic
student at university, involving 21 countries around the world.
Dr David
Grant, Chartered
Psychologist
Dr David Grant has worked
in higher education for more than 25 years. His university appointments
include Principal Lecturer as well as Head of School and Associate Dean of
Students (Special Needs). He is
currently working as an independent Chartered Physchologist specialising in
carrying out dyslexia and dyspraxia diagnoses for higher education
students. He also carries out Needs Assessments for the Access Centre at
the University of Westminster.
Jane
Jane Pawluk
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NADO
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