Free Learning Difficulties Including Dyslexia webinars
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La Trobe University and the Victorian Department of Education have this year collaborated to run workshops across Victoria about learning difficulties including dyslexia. The workshops have been available to teachers and other Department of Education staff.
The information from these workshops is now being made available free online via YouTube as webinars. Wow. Amazingly generous of both the University and the Department, since most professional development of this type and quality is paywalled. So thanks to all involved.
The webinars are presented by Dr Tanya Serry from La Trobe University, and the workshops on which they are based were developed with Professor Pamela Snow, Ms Emina McLean and Assistant Professor Jane McCormack also from La Trobe, and Dr Lorraine Hammond from Edith Cowan University in WA.
The webinars are the perfect length for after-school PD, at about 40-45 minutes each, here they all are. The last one won’t be available till October. If using them, please express your appreciation to the people behind these webinars for so generously sharing their expertise publicly. Amazing and brilliant.
Webinar 1: Delving into Systematic Synthetic Phonics
Webinar 2 – Analysing Spelling Errors
Webinar 3 – Decodable, Authentic and Predictable Texts
Webinar 4 – Transitioning from Oral Language to Becoming Literate
The last webinar, Delving into Explicit Instruction, will be available after 8th October:
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These webinars are fantastic and exactly what I will be showing my school principal. I have been trying to get our school to move from whole language to synthetic Phonics and it is an uphill battle. The change is slowly beginning. I am looking forward to the last of the five webinars. Thank you so much for producing these and letting them be used free of charge.
Hi Christine, I’m so happy you like them, but these are not my webinars, I’m just trying to help promote them because I think they are so fantastic. Please make sure that people understand this and give credit where it is due. Thanks, Alison
Thank you Alison for the promotion. Good luck Christine and I am pleased you found them helpful. Tanya Serry
Hi Alison,
Do you have the original link for these webinars? Just wondering if they have notes to go along with the slides. Thanks
Hi Sarah, I don’t have the original link or notes, but can you ask Tanya Serry? https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/display/tserry
Hi Sarah and Alison,
There are no notes to go with the webinars. They are part of a series of workshops I did for the Victorian department of education.
Regards and thanks for your interest,
Tanya Serry
Thanks so much for this valuable knowledge. The more we know the better we can help children. Does anyone know when it was made and if its up-to-date in terms of current thinking and therapies?
This blog post and the webinars are from 2018 so quite recent, and the people who put the webinars together are now running the SOLAR lab at La Trobe University, making reading science accessible to teachers, see https://www.latrobe.edu.au/school-education/solar-lab. They are running high-quality, online short courses that are grounded in current reading/spelling research, both from the classroom and the lab.
SOLAR is leading the way. Each and every one of these contributors deserves a massive thank you for their generosity in providing educators and therapists with the tools we need to serve the learning needs of our students and clients.