Professor John Munro, Learning to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties

Associate Professor John Munro of Melbourne University, 11:45, will describe one approach to using educational technology to train teachers to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties.

This seminar describes one approach to using educational technology to train teachers to teach students who have reading and literacy learning difficulties.
To successfully teach these students, teachers need to
• understand how readers read,
• identify the multiple causes of these difficulties
• assess and diagnose these difficulties
• use effective teaching procedures.

The approach uses educational technology procedures to teach these components. It simulate the processes involved in early word reading and shows how dyslexia is caused. Second, it shows various types of reading difficulty being diagnosed. Third it shows various teaching procedures being used in regular classrooms.

Bob Black, Developing early reading skills to promote and develop spoken language

Wednesday

Bob Black, 13:00, will focus on children with Down syndrome and others with speech and language difficulties with the seminar demonstrating how teachers can use early years ICT to promote language and literacy skills. In essence the seminar will assist teachers in ‘teaching reading to teach talking‘.

For children with Down syndrome and others with speech and language difficulties the seminar will demonstrate how teachers can use early years ICT to promote language and literacy skills. In essence the seminar will assist teachers in ‘teaching reading to teach talking‘. The Link between reading and productive speech has been well researched and proven since Lesleys Duffen’s first paper and the work of the Downs Syndrome educational trust and others. Children with Downs syndrome in common with many other visual learners have a specific learning profile, not just a global delay