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Professional learning...
OG Language Approach
Linda McKillop offers Yoshimoto Orton-Gillingham training to educators and parents in Tasmania. This is direct, data-driven teaching to you. It covers the key knowledge and techniques for all educators to unlock students’ literacy.
https://spt.com.au/orton-gillingham-literacy-dyslexia-training/
Start Smart Tasmania
Start Smart offers inclusion support, including learning plan development, programming recommendations, literacy intervention (MSL therapy) for students with dyslexia and related difficulties, comprehensive literacy assessments of students, and a range of professional learning workshops for schools.
https://www.startsmarttasmania.com.au/#
Jocelyn Seamer Education
Jocelyn is a former teacher whose aim is to deliver the simplest, most practical professional learning opportunities to help teachers and teams implement structured literacy in their classrooms. Jocelyn offers professional learning so you will learn to fully implement the Science of Reading to get every child in your class reading without worksheets, guessing strategies or tears.
https://www.jocelynseamereducation.com/
Dyslexia Orton-Gillingham Institute of Australia
The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a direct, explicit, multisensory, structured, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive approach to teach literacy when reading, writing, and spelling does not come easily to individuals, such as those with dyslexia.
Visit the DOGI website or facebook page for more information and course dates.
dsf Dyslexia/SPELD Foundation - Workshops and Events
DSF provides a range of professional development opportunities for teachers, school psychologists, speech pathologists and allied health professionals. In addition, DSF runs free information evenings and workshops for parents on a regular basis.
https://dsf.net.au/events
Lifelong Literacy
Lifelong Literacy bring high quality, research-supported literacy instruction to schools, educators and families.
https://lifelongliteracy.com/
Think Forward Educators
Think Forward Educators is a community of over 20,000 teachers, school leaders, specialists, parents, and researchers. They advocate for education that allows every child to succeed: Promoting social equity, using the Science of Learning.
https://thinkforwardeducators.org/
Latrobe Unviersity - SOLAR Lab
The SOLAR Lab offers a series of online short courses on the science of language and reading, designed for classroom teachers, literacy leaders, principals, allied health clinicians, and parents who are interested to know more about the linguistic foundations of reading and evidence-informed teaching practices.
https://www.latrobe.edu.au/school-education/about/spotlight
Institute for Multisensory Language Education
For more information visit the IMSLE website: dates and locations around Australia.
http://www.multisensoryeducation.net.au
TSD1 Teaching Students with Dyslexia, Level 1
An Introduction to Dyslexia and Evidence Based Multisensory Teaching for Teachers, Support Staff, Parents and Tutors. Presented by Bill Hansberry, Karen Hodson and Sally Andrew.
Playberry Multisensory Literacy Program
Playberry is the tier three program being used by a growing number of schools, private specialist dyslexia teachers / tutors and speech and language pathologists who want to use the most effective intervention methods available . These providers have been specifically trained in the TSD (Teaching Students with Dyslexia) suite of trainings.
