A
one day conference designed to enhance the
understanding and skills of people who love and
work with adults and children with Specific Learning
Difficulties including Dyslexia.
Suitable for family members, guidance officers,
psychologists, teachers, learning support staff,
counsellors and others who love and work with
children and adults with learning disabilities and
others who care about and work with dyslexia and
other learning difficulties. This conference draws
together experts and practitioners from a range of
specialties to provide a comprehensive response to
this important issue, which affects an estimated one
in every 10 Australians and their loved ones.
Understanding & Supporting
People with Specific Learning
Difficulties (SLDs) including
Dyslexia
General Information
DATE
Saturday, 19 March 2016
9:00am – 4:30pm
COST
Full price - $140
Concession - $100 (HCC holders, students, a person
with an SLD, and family members of
someone with SLD)
Lunch - Provided
NB: People who register and pay on the day of the
conference will be subject to the full registration price
(no concessions will be given).
In this keynote presentation Kate will discuss the specific
cognitive strengths and difficulties faced by people with SLDs
(including dyslexia). She will then explore how cognitive
difficulties experienced by this group manifest in the area of
academic challenges, and how parents, teachers,
psychologists, learning support staff and others can best
support the learning and overall wellbeing of people who
experience learning difficulties.
Assessing, Teaching
and Supporting
People with
Dyslexia!
LOCATION
O’Shea Centre
19 Lovedale St
Wilston, QLD, 4051
A one day conference for family members,
psychologists, teachers, learning support staff,
counsellors and others who love and work with
children and adults with specific learning
difficulties including dyslexia
Main address Dr Kate Jacobs
Dr Kate Jacobs obtained a combined PhD/Masters in
Educational and Developmental Psychology. She is currently a
Lecturer in Educational Psychology at Monash University and
also works in private practice where she specialises in
educational assessments and interventions for learning
difficulties.
Understanding,
QUERIES
Email: [email protected]
Website: opening in November, 2015
Phone: John Meteyard – 0404 752 467
Saturday,
19 March, 2016
Guest Speaker: Dr Kate Jacobs
Time
Psychological Assessment and Intervention –
Psychologists and Guidance Officers
Teachers and Learning Support Staff
9:00am
Registration
9.30am
Keynote address – Dr Kate Jacobs
11.00am
Morning Tea (provided)
11.30am
12.30pm
1.20pm
Families & Loved Ones
Half Day Workshop
CHC-based cross-battery assessment and intervention
(Dr Kate Jacobs & Dianne Watts)
Workshop 1 – Classroom and Teaching Strategies 1
The workshop will break for lunch part way through
Workshop 2 – Classroom and Teaching Strategies 2
2.25pm
3.30pm
Workshop 1 – Helping your child to read
Lunch
Workshop 2 – Home life, organisation, peers
and siblings!
Workshop 3 – Technological and other aids to
Workshop 3 – Supporting your child’s mental
teaching and learning
health and self-esteem
Closing session and concluding comments
4.00pm
Finish
Psychological Assessment and
Teachers and Learning Support
Intervention Stream
Staff
Registration
Half Day Workshop – Dr Kate Jacobs and Dianne Watts
In this workshop series, educational experts including David
Waterworth will discuss classroom and teaching strategies that
represent best practice for students who experience specific
learning difficulties (SLDs) including dyslexia. In addition teachers
and learning support staff who attend will be introduced to
technological and other aids designed to enhance and support
the learning of children and young people with learning
difficulties.
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This half-day workshop for psychologists and Guidance Officers
details and demonstrates recent advances in the field of
cognitive assessment afforded by Cattell-Horn-Carroll (CHC)
theory based methods of cross-battery assessment (XBA). In
addition to gaining an understanding of the multiple CHC
abilities important for literacy and numeracy acquisition,
attendees will be able to classify major intelligence batteries
according to the CHC abilities they measure.
Considered by many scholars in the field as providing the most
accurate representation of the structure of human cognitive
abilities currently available, CHC theory provides a greatly
expanded understanding of the individual differences of
cognitive functioning. This expansion in understanding identified
a significant theory-to-practice gap in cognitive assessment. To
address this, the cross-battery assessment approach was
developed which provides researchers and practitioners with a
series of psychometrically defensible guidelines that enables the
valid and reliable integration of results from different test
batteries.
Families and Loved Ones
In this workshop series, facilitators including Majella
Waterworth who experiences dyslexia herself and also has a son
with the same learning difficulties, and registered psychologist
Dr John Meteyard, will discuss a range of topics of importance to
parents, partners, siblings, extended family members and other
loved ones. This will include how families can best support a
member with SLDs including dyslexia with their learning and
other important areas of life (organisation, peers, etc), as well as
a discussion of common mental health and self-esteem related
issues experienced by this group, and how families can best
support young people and adults in this situation.
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PAYMENT OPTIONS
PayPal or Credit Card
Website with paypal and credit card payment options
will open in November, 2015.
Electronic Funds Transfer:
Resolution Counselling
Credit Union Australia: BSB – 814 282
Account # – 30009788
(Include your name in the info line if paying this way)
Also email [email protected] if
you require a receipt
Cheque or money order made payable to:
Resolution Counselling
17 Ochre Cres, Griffin, Qld, 4503.