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Ensuring Quality in Specialist Support for Students with SpLDs in Higher Education Workshop: NADP Conference July 2009 Ros Lehany, Sally Freeman, Tanya Zybutz, Shirley Dow, Pauline Sumner. Workshop Aims. Introduce ADSHE Guidelines

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  1. Ensuring Quality in Specialist Support for Students with SpLDsin Higher EducationWorkshop: NADP Conference July 2009Ros Lehany, Sally Freeman, Tanya Zybutz, Shirley Dow, Pauline Sumner

  2. Workshop Aims • Introduce ADSHE Guidelines • Explore the SpLD profile and its link to academic challenges • Understand key features of specialist support in HE

  3. ADSHE Mission Statement • To share knowledge and disseminate good practice, including promoting and developing the understanding of all aspects of dyslexia (now extended to other SpLDs) • To clarify and promote students’ entitlement to dyslexia support within individual institutions and throughout the sector

  4. The ADSHE Guidelines Working Party: • to establish consistency of quality provision of specialist 1:1 support in HE • to draw up guidance for best practice • to encourage reflective practice

  5. Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Specialist Support for Students with SpLDs in Higher Education • Identification of SpLDs • Administration for best practice • The specialist Dyslexia Tutor in HE • Support • Mind Map • Definitions and References

  6. Effective 1:1 Specialist Support • Seven Key Principles Underpin Specialist 1:1 Support • Meta-cognition - Multi-sensory • Relevance - Motivation • Over Learning - “Little and Often” • Modelling

  7. Three Dimensions of Learning Robert Burden author of Dyslexia and Self-Concept (2005) “All learning includes three dimensions, namely, the cognitive dimension of knowledge and skills, the psychodynamic dimension of motivation and emotions , and the social dimension of communication and co-operation - all of which are embedded in a societally situated context.”

  8. Case Study • The SpLD profile and its links to academic challenges, exploring a case study of work that was carried out by a Dyslexia Support Tutor with an undergraduate student studying English Literature • Jane Eyre Case Study • Example of HE student’s writing

  9. Understand the Key Principles that Underpin Specialist Support Mind Map Activity • Break into small groups with a facilitator • Use the time as an opportunity to reflect on the case study, raise any questions with the facilitator and discuss how the key principles underpin all the support .

  10. Conclusion • ADSHE Guidelines • The SpLD profile and its link to academic challenges • Key features of specialist support in HE

  11. References • ADSHE (2009) Guidelines for Quality Assurance in Specialist Support for Students with SpLDs (Revised) and Mind Map Available from www.adshe.org.uk • Burden R. (2005) Dyslexia and Self-Concept . Wiley Blackwell

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