An exploration of how adopting a maths mastery approach can support learners with Dyscalculia.

• Suitable for all Key Stages
• Practical Strategies to take away.
• Understanding of Maths Mastery

This talk will explore the principles underpinning the Maths Mastery approach to teaching maths and how this can be beneficial to learners with Dyscalculia. The talk will cover the five core competencies of metacognition, visualisation, generalisation, number sense and communication. It will also gives examples of how to use manipulatives and how to develop reasoning through the use of the bar model.

This session focuses upon supporting your child to develop the crucial organisation skills for learning.

• Does your child find it difficult to begin, maintain, complete and finish tasks? This talk will help you to help them.
• We will explore working memory. What is it? How does it develop? How can you effectively support it?
• We will explore lots of practical strategies that can support at home and in school.

Does your child find it difficult to begin, maintain and complete tasks? Does it feel like you are always having to remind them of everything? Does their learning appear inconsistent? Perhaps here today and gone tomorrow?
This session will explore Executive Functioning , including working memory. We will share a plethora of practical strategies that can help in all of these areas so that your child can learn effectively.

This course will give parents an overview of what to expect from a dyslexia report

• • Understand how to commission a dyslexia assessment
• • Understand what a dyslexia assessment explores and why
• • Know how to make sense of dyslexia assessment report
• • Know how to engage with school

In this talk, Dr Ross will take you through the dyslexia assessment process, relate different tests undertaken to different areas of dyslexia and their manifestations in daily life. She will then guide you through a sample assessment report and discuss how to interpret it, with focus on standardised scores and the concept of a ‘spikey profile’, and its connection to a specific learning difficulty. The recommendations section of the sample report will be discussed and contextualised within the policy framework surrounding special educational needs in an English context (reference will be made to contexts within the United Kingdom), drawing on the Equality Act 2020, the Children and Families Act 2014 and the Special Educational Needs and Disability Code of Practice: 0-25 Years.
Specific Learning Outcomes are as follows:
• Understand how to commission a dyslexia assessment
• Understand what a dyslexia assessment explores and why
• Know how to make sense of dyslexia assessment report
• Know how to engage with school so that reasonable recommendations within a report can be implemented in school.

A parents guide to flipping your child's dyslexic reality from surviving to thriving.

• Practical strategies you can implement the moment you get home
• Learn how to support your childs Dyslexia at the home
• Empower parents to how to speak to school!
• Gain control of your child's educational journey and future
• Flip dyslexia on its head no longer surviving but thriving

Survival to thrival with Dyslexia: A parents guide.

Your child’s literacy skill appears to be holding them back. You’ve got a feeling that they’re dyslexic, but school don’t see the issue and you can’t afford a dyslexia diagnosis. It’s terrifying. You feel helpless. It breaks your heart, sending them to school every day knowing they are following the exam based curriculum that sees them falling even further behind. Their confidence is shattered and you are exhausted!

You feel powerless, worrying endlessly at how your child is ever going to make it. Wonder what will become of them what they will be, or whether they will even get through school in one piece.

I get it.

I’ve been there.

However there is always hope and always 'another way' if you’re prepared to look for it.

Drawing on my personal and professional experience and knowledge I’m going to share with you how I navigated and continue to navigate the education system to ensure that Dyslexia doesn’t hold my children back.

Be prepared to leave with armfuls of practical strategies, ideas and a fired up belly because I intend to empower you to flip your child’s current dyslexic reality from survival to thrival!

A parents' guide to flipping your child's dyslexic reality from surviving to thriving.

• Practical strategies you can implement the moment you get home
• Learn how to support your child's Dyslexia at the home
• Empower parents on how to speak to school!
• Gain control of your child's educational journey and future
• Flip dyslexia on its head, no longer surviving but thriving

Your child’s literacy skill appears to be holding them back. You’ve got a feeling that they’re dyslexic, but school don’t see the issue and you can’t afford a dyslexia diagnosis. It’s terrifying. You feel helpless. It breaks your heart, sending them to school every day knowing they are following the exam based curriculum that sees them falling even further behind. Their confidence is shattered and you are exhausted!



You feel powerless, worrying endlessly at how your child is ever going to make it. Wonder what will become of them what they will be, or whether they will even get through school in one piece.



I get it.



I’ve been there.



However there is always hope and always 'another way' if you’re prepared to look for it.



Drawing on my personal and professional experience and knowledge I’m going to share with you how I navigated and continue to navigate the education system to ensure that Dyslexia doesn’t hold my children back.



Be prepared to leave with armfuls of practical strategies, ideas and a fired up belly because I intend to empower you to flip your child’s current dyslexic reality from survival to thrival!

This is based on Susie's BBC Bitsize article 'Five multisensory activities you can do with your child at home.'

• Multi-sensory techniques that work.
• Affordable multi-sensory techniques we can all try.
• Multi-sensory is magnificent for dyslexic students.

Doing things differently can be daunting for your child. In this session we demonstrate how to make that change.

• Practical hints and tips on using assistive technology
• Empowering your child to become an independent learner
• Enabling parents to help their child(ren) to use assistive technology
• Different apps that can make a difference
• Inspiring confidence; boost your own skills!

Many conscientious dyslexic learners suffer from test anxiety. Discover the most common cause and how it can be comprehensively addressed.

• Dyslexics as bright, creative but struggling picture-thinkers
• Imagination, not memory, as the primary dyslexic learning tool
• Traditional note-taking vs. creative, visual methods
• The difference between memorisation and mastery
• Using dyslexic creativity to drill down to meaning

Many conscientious dyslexic learners suffer from test anxiety. Sometimes, the emotional force is so strong that it produces physical symptoms such as stomach ache, headaches or diarrhoea. A major test can evoke anxiety days before it occurs.

Anxiety can have a variety of origins. For bright but struggling dyslexic learners, the most frequent cause is a mismatch between how an individual naturally learns, and how they have been taught to learn. This causes a vicious circle: studying hard for a test, trying hard to remember the material, but forgetting nearly all of it in the test environment. As a tragic result, these bright but struggling learners stop trusting their own minds.

Yet the vicious circle can be broken. When a person acquires study techniques that match how they naturally think and learn, being tested become easier, and success becomes predictable. The resulting self-trust builds emotional resilience.

This presentation will showcase a simple range of techniques, based around the pioneering "Gift of Dyslexia" Davis methods, that have proven effective at combating test anxiety.

Anxiety - why, what's it for, what does it do, how do we deal with it?

• Learning the underlying factors.
• Understanding how anxiety affects us physically.
• Why neurodiverse people are at a higher statistical risk.
• Recognising maladaptive safety behaviours.
• Proven support techniques and interventions.

Research shows that having Dyslexia, or being neurodiverse, puts someone at a statistical higher risk of suffering from an anxiety disorder. In an attempt to manage/reduce anxiety levels, people often develop maladaptive safety behaviours. Unfortunately, these safety behaviours don’t often work and can become more complex and entrenched. Join Sam Garner to understand anxiety, the underlying factors and the common types of safety behaviour. Then learn about the types of intervention/support that can help anxiety become more manageable, either used by individuals, families or in the school/workplace.

Prepare to be amazed by how technology can help dyslexic learners attain higher grades, improving exam results and future outcomes.

• Many dyslexics are bright, yet they underperform at school.
• Technology can drastically raise attainment levels for dyslexic students
• Prepare to be amazed by what is possible.
• Get equipped to help your child achieve.
• Don’t delay – early adoption is critical for success.

Widely available technology can drastically raise attainment levels for students who struggle with literacy. Most homes and schools already own potentially life-transforming technologies but are not using them to their full advantage. As a result, dyslexic students continue to struggle needlessly.

Prepare to be amazed by how technology can help all learners attain higher grades throughout school and beyond. Improving exam results and future outcomes.

Learn how to break down barriers to excellence making the curriculum fully accessible.

Do not wait until formal exams are imminent. The sooner strategies are in place the better. Learn how to set primary students up for exam success in later life.

The best resource a dyslexic child can have is a well-informed parent.

A session for ANY parent wanting to navigate the education system & get the BEST support for their child.

• Your child deserves the BEST and RIGHT education.
• Parents need to learn how to navigate the SEN system.
• Join Paloma for an informative and engaging live session!
• Learn tips on how to get the best support!
• Ensuring you get the RIGHT support for your child.

Join Paloma Forde for a session where she will offer her top tips on navigating the education system in order to ensure that your child is receiving the BEST and RIGHT support.

Paloma has worked across all key stages and has a wealth of knowledge with her 26 years in eduation.

This session is in it's third year due it's popularity among parents. Paloma will arm you with advice and support that will have you leaving feeling much more confident that you can get the right support for your child in their educational setting.

This session has designed to allow for Q and A (as there are always many questions that parents want answered)