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DEVELOPING ASSESSMENT SKILLS:
Using and interpreting standardised assessment and screening test tools for students with dyslexia and dyspraxia
One day course for SENCOs, CLASS TEACHERS and HLTAs
COURSE DATES: Friday 27th January 2012
TIMES: Arrival 9:15am for Start 9:30am – 3:30pm
LOCATION: Dyslexia and Literacy Support Centre Glemsford Suffolk
COURSE FEE: £120 Lunch and refreshments included
TO BOOK A PLACE ON THIS COURSE: Complete an application form (opens new window) and send with payment to: Brainwaves Education Ltd, Dyslexia and Literacy Support Centre, 4C Clock House Farm Estate, Cavendish Lane, Glemsford, Suffolk CO10 7PZ
This one day course is designed to develop confidence in using and interpreting a range of assessment tools which will allow you to identify students at risk of dyslexia and dyspraxia. It will enable you to evaluate the range of assessment tools currently used in your school to identify students with learning difficulties and assess their effectiveness in the light of the June 2009 Rose Review, ‘Identify and Teaching Children and Young People with Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties’. Delegates will be given some assessment tools, which are ‘open access’ and free to use.
In addition the course will develop your skills at interpreting Educational Psychologist reports from independent assessors and suggest links between recommendation and intervention methods that are realistic within a classroom, and small group teaching setting.
Target audience for this training:
The training areas covered:
Assessment
The difference between reading comprehension and reading decoding tests
Underlying tests of phonological skills
The dyspraxia checklists available
Free assessment tools
Using IQ results from Educational Psychologists assessments to interpret strengths and weakness in verbal and non verbal skills
Strategies to assess students free writing
A close look at the DASH (Detailed Assessment of the Speed of Handwriting)
Intervention -
Using assessment information as part of:Assessment for Learning (AfL)
Assessing Pupils’ Progress
Individual Education Plans
This training day is delivered by:
Jane Dupree, company director of Brainwaves Education Ltd. Jane is an education consultant who is an experienced trainer, assessor and practitioner. She has published a wide range of material. Her latest book is Dyslexia-friendly practice in the secondary classroom, by Tilly Mortimore and Jane Dupree, published in July 2008.
How to book:
Please complete a course application form (opens new window) and return with payment of the full course fee. If you are unable to download the Application Form from our website, or would like a form be posted to you please email
How to find us:
The Centre has on site parking, is easily accessible by car and is a 15minute taxi ride from the nearest railway station at Sudbury.