by Arran Smith | Jan 16, 2020 | Education
On the 6th February 2020, the British Dyslexia Association is holding the Good Practice in Dyslexia and Literacy Conference in London. Friend of the blog, Dr Susie Nyman is one of the speakers. This article provides a snapshot of her talk on how to get an A* in...
by Arran Smith | Jan 15, 2020 | Education
Neil Mackay and Fintan O’Regan have already been confirmed for the SEN Jigsaw Conference on the 6th June, but who are doing the workshops and what is going to be different this year? I can’t believe that we are in our 5th year of organising the SEN Jigsaw Conference,...
by Arran Smith | Jan 13, 2020 | Education, Technology For Studying
Why is it that dyslexic university students get given this technology to help with studying but many schools fail to provide it, especially when it would make so much more sense to use it in secondary school to support learning? Oh my goodness, this topic just gets me...
by Arran Smith | Jan 10, 2020 | Education, Mental Wellbeing, Technology For Studying
Intervention for children with dyslexia in schools work best when the parents and teachers work in partnership but with emotions rising high and the pressures of the education system kick in, many of these partnerships fail. What can ‘Emotional intelligence’ offer to...
by Arran Smith | Jan 3, 2020 | Education, Technology For Studying
In my last post I announced the winner of the 2019 Christmas Competition that I ran which asked participants to share their experiences of supporting a child with dyslexia with assistive technology. As I read through the entries, one of them shared that they used a...
by Arran Smith | Jan 2, 2020 | Education, Technology For Studying
Last month I ran a competition to find an inspiring example of a child using assistive technology to level the playing field in their studying at school. Here’s what I found out and who won the competition… The Story So Far…The aim of the competition was to get a...
