ONLINE: Yes, Literacy is Speech Pathologists’ Business!

Online Learning

Session 1 Monday 4th July 2022, 9.00am-12.30pm NZST

Session 2 Thursday 7th July 2022, 9.00am-12.30pm NZST 

This event will not be recorded for later viewing. Single registration cost is for each individual, not per site. Each person must register and attendance is required for both sessions. Zoom will be used to deliver the training with “meeting room” details emailed to participants prior to each module. You will need to download Zoom software to your computer. A webcam and inbuilt microphone on your computer is also preferable so you can fully participate.

Intended Participants

This series of two 3.5hr-hour tele-training modules is intended to assist generalist speech pathologists assess literacy clients, and plan and deliver effective and efficient therapy based on the best available scientific evidence.

Readings and Resources

There are no recommended pre-readings.

Learning Objectives 

Following this event participants will:

• Learn about assessment of phonological processing, decoding, fluency, spelling, and other literacy-related areas.
• Have up-to-date knowledge of current theoretical model(s) of reading and spelling development.
• Integrate intervention targeting phoneme-grapheme correspondences and morphology.
• Be knowledgeable about programs and resources: sorting the wheat from the chaff, and providing parent-friendly homework including plenty of well-targeted connected decodable text.
• Be able to work with teachers and others to sink Whole Language and float the good ship of Structured Literacy (a key part of which is explicit, systematic, synthetic phonics).

About Alison Clarke

Alison has been a Speech Pathologist since 1988, and also holds a Masters in Applied Linguistics and an ESL teaching certificate. She has worked for the Victorian Education Department, Yooralla, SCOPE, a University in Mexico, a hospital in London, the Royal Children’s Hospital and Lewis and Lewis. She started her private practice in 2000 and the Spelfabet website in 2012 because she was keen to encourage early literacy teaching and intervention that reflects scientific reading research. Alison received Learning Difficulties Australia’s 2018 Mona Tobias Award for her outstanding contribution to Australian education of people with learning difficulties.