Dyslexia Awareness Month

October is Dyslexia Awareness Month. This week is Dyslexia Awareness Week, and to help celebrate the EA Literacy Service will be posting on their Facebook page some great free resources and ideas to promote Dyslexia Awareness.

This year’s theme, ‘Breaking Through Barriers.’

Dear parents

In St Clare’s Abbey we place a lot of emphasis on helping our pupils with Literacy difficulties. Whilst we as teachers, cannot diagnose a child as having Dyslexia, it takes an educational psychologist to do that, we have undertaken a lot of training to identify good strategies for helping pupils struggling with Literacy, some of whom may have Dyslexia. I have arranged that the newsletters from EA Literacy Service be posted on our school website under the ‘Parents’ section and ‘Literacy Help’ sub section.
I have been refreshing my own reading of these over the week and I would urge you to have a look.
One in particular that struck me last night was Issue 2- ‘Reading’. Contained within it is a link to a movie about one mother’s struggle to help her child overcome his challenges arising from his Literacy difficulty. It is a wonderful story and its references to the Nessy programme that we purchase for many of our children is thought provoking. (see below)

I urge any parent who has a Nessy license for their child to watch it and truly commit to Nessy. The license bought for your child is expensive and will really work if used in a committed way.