Events, Workshops & Webcasts
1) Professional Development
2) Melbourne Parent Workshops
Time: 6:15 PM – 9:00 PM
Location: Melbourne CBD
Event Info: This workshop aims to give participants a broad overview of dyslexia.
- Supporting children with maths difficulties
- Transitioning to Uni
- Helpful guide to effective school communication
- Anxious Kids
- Study Skills
- Planning for VCE
3) Regional Workshops
Time: 6:30PM – 8:30 PM
Location: Ballarat
Event Info: This workshop aims to give participants a broad overview of dyslexia.
4) Live Webcasts
5) Webcast Recordings
6) LETRS® Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling – Book through DSF
7) David A. Kilpatrick - Learning Difficulties Australia - Book through LDA
David A. Kilpatrick – Learning Difficulties Australia
Recent Advances in Understanding Word-Level Reading Problems: Assessment and Highly Effective Intervention
Speaker: David A. Kilpatrick
Date: Melbourne – Monday 19 August 2019
Time: 9.00am – 3.00pm
Venue: Melbourne Town Hall, Corner of Collins and Swanston Streets
Catering: Morning tea and lunch provided
The presentation focuses on how children learn to read words and why
some children struggle. Understanding word-level reading development
and its problems will guide both assessment and intervention.
Studies consistently show the most commonly used intervention approaches provide limited
benefits for weak readers, while others show that some approaches can yield very large reading
gains for such students. Once we understand how reading works and why some students struggle,
the reasons for this pattern of intervention findings become clear, and then the focus is on
establishing the best instructional and intervention practices.
PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN:
what research shows about how word-reading skills develop,
why some students struggle in word-level reading, including those with severe reading disabilities,
how to evaluate students to determine precisely why they are struggling in reading,
how to be confident and capable of doing “dyslexia evaluations”,
why the most common intervention approaches yield limited outcomes,
about highly effective approaches to preventing and correcting reading difficulties,
and be provided with access to free follow-up materials.
Dr. David A. Kilpatrick, Professor of psychology for the State University of New York, is a New York State certified school psychologist with 28 years’ experience in schools and has taught courses in learning disabilities and educational psychology since 1994. David is a reading researcher and the author of two books on reading: Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, and, Equipped for Reading Success. Most recently, David is the co-author of The Science of Reading Development and Reading Difficulties: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice – to be published mid-2019.
LDA Website: www.ldaustralia.org/conferences-and-seminars
8) SPELD Victoria's 50th Anniversary Week
SPELD Victoria is Turning 50!
Help Us to Celebrate, Reflect and Grow
Monday 26 August 2019 to Saturday 31 August 2019
Our aims are to:
1. Open a learning lab at Donkey Wheel House
where young people can access intervention and
tutoring that matches their specific learning needs
2. Enable our unrivalled 50 years of assessment data
to be readied to support research
3. Establish future funding that allows the
next generation, regardless of socioeconomic or geographic constraints to access better support and assistance
4. Celebrate 50 years of achievement
and look to the future in our Anniversary Week of
26 August 2019 to Saturday 31 August 2019
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