Empowering children and families
Raising awareness
Building capacity and understanding
Events...
Square Peg will be running a series of Parent workshops in 2025, to align with our new resource: Advocating for your dyslexia child in Tasmanian schools.
Devonport - 27 February 2025 - click here to register
This Tasmania-specific workshop is designed to help parents navigate the education system and support their child with dyslexia.
Join us for an informative session filled with strategies and resources to empower you in advocating for your child's needs. Learn how to effectively communicate with teachers and school administrators, understand your child's rights, and access the support they require to succeed in school.
Don't miss out on this opportunity to connect with other parents facing similar challenges and gain valuable insights.
Book Launch:
Dyslexia: Insights into the hidden disability in and out of the workplace by Dr Shae Wissell
Friday 14th February 2025, 3.00 - 5.00pm - Register here...
We are pleased to support Dr Shae Wissell in launching her new book in Tasmania.
A compelling and deep dive into living and working with Dyslexia as an adult, based on several years of extensive research and personal experience. Join us for light refreshments followed by the official opening and a leading discussion panel for an In Conversation session on dyslexia experienced in adulthood.
Unlike any other, expert and authority Dr Shae Wissell has written a profound evidence-based book revealing the struggles, strengths and future hope for adults with dyslexia.
Panel discussion:
- Dr Shae Wissell, author. Director of re:think dyslexia and founder of the Dear Dyslexic Foundation. Certified Fempire coach for adults with dyslexia in the workplace. Workplace advisor offering consulting and learning and development programs. Certified practicing speech pathologist.
- Dr Judith Hudson, chartered psychologist, assessor, author and researcher of special educational needs. Author and [retired] teacher of post-grad module, ‘Educating students with dyslexia and learning difficulties’. Board member of Square Pegs Dyslexia, Tasmania. A dyslexia Ambassador.
- Professor Rufus Black, Vice-Chancellor of University of Tasmania. Degrees in law, politics, economics, ethics, and theology from the University of Melbourne and Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar). President of Museums Victoria, Deputy Chancellor of Victoria University, Director of the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research and Board Member of the Committee for the Economic Development of Australia and Innovation Science Australia.
Professional learning...
Square Pegs understands the value of a teacher who is able to deliver effective, structured literacy for children with dyslexia. We support evidence-based approaches and encourage participation in professional learning, such as:
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.
