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13 December 2007

More help for dyslexic children

Children with dyslexia will receive more support as part of a £3 million government pilot scheme.

Pupils in 10 local authority areas will receive one-to-one tuition from specialist dyslexia teachers.

If the scheme proves successful it will be continued across the country.

Charities Dyslexia Action and the British Dyslexia Association will also benefit from additional funding for an advice helpline and to provide specialist tuition.

Read the announcement

Posted on Thursday, December 13, 2007

3 comments:

  1. I for one would like to know what this support consists of. Has there been a new research agenda by the government, seeing as it is funded by government money?
    As a TA I have been working for some years with a wide range of dyslexic children and would have been very interested in any additional information that may have come to light.

    Why are the government funding only specialist teachers to do this work? Would it not have been useful to disseminate this package to all schools so that TAs, who in my view are very often the 'specialists' in SEN, can benefit from a new perspective if that is what it is?

    Perhaps eventually we will get to know what this is about. Can anyone share some info on this at the present time?

    I am wondering whether it will be similar to the Reading Recovery package which is also Government funded and is similarly closed to TAs.
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  2. I agree with your comments, I too as a TA have worked with dyslexic pupils and feel that it will only be a Reading Recovery Package, if you find out what the information is, I would like to know - specialist in this field are few and far between and surely they cannot 'spread' to all in the schools who desperately need some help for these pupils !!
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  3. I work in a specialist Dyslexia unit and find that the schools are crying out for money to be spent in order for their TA's to be trained in this specialist field. The numbers of pupils requiring specialist support grows each school term and until this government realises the scale of the problem many of them will unfortunately slip through the net without any support whatsoever.
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