06/02/08 Support Teachers

Education Queensland has a discussion paper on the redevelopment of the role of the Support Teacher from 2009 involving the removal of the Appraisement Process.
The paper is long and very teacher oriented but there are questions posed at the end that are worth responding to and feedback is requested by 29th February 2008.
I believe that this planned reorganisation will not improve the situation for students with dyslexia and may even be more detrimental than the present one.
Please read and respond if you feel you are able to, with your personal experiences of how the system has treated your child. This is an EQ document but history shows that the private and Catholic sectors ultimately follow the EQ lead.
Click here to view the discussion paper.

18/05/07 Reading Recovery To Go

Minister for Education in Queensland, Rob Welford, has announced the phasing out of the Reading Recovery Program in Queensland over the next 2 years. Reasons given were that gains made by students when they completed the program were not maintained over time.

Read more: 18/05/07 Reading Recovery To Go

04/03/08 Let's define 'learning disabilities' at last

Victorian student with dyslexia receives compensation from the Education Department for their failure to support her in her studies.

21/01/08 Neuroscience

How will neuroscientific tools like neuroimaging help us understand dyslexia, fine-tune its identification, and enhance educational intervention? In this article, Gordon F. Sherman, Ph.D., addresses this complex question. (USA)