Basics of Literacy Support for Children with SEN

• Parents/caregivers and educators/practitioners in the disability sector, who are supporting children with SEN or additional learning needs in the area of literacy. This will in turn impact children with literacy difficulties and their caregivers as these children will then be able to better access literacy content to meet academic demands. 
• Those with a keen desire to support children with SEN with literacy challenges

1. Illustrate the literacy challenges and management of children with SEN in reading, spelling, and writing
2. Interpret dyslexia through the lens of phonological processing deficit theory and double deficit theory
3. Evaluate evidence-based approaches to literacy intervention for children with SEN
4. Apply the Orton Gillingham principles, the alphabetic principle, and the five building blocks of literacy
5. Apply phonological awareness and phonological-based strategies for teaching reading and spelling
6. Administer basic reading fluency interventions for children with literacy difficulties
7. Implement simultaneously multisensory instruction for grammar for children with literacy difficulties
8. Illustrate letter-sound relationships, spelling rules and generalisations, VCCV syllabication, and suffix rules in the use of assistive tools in interventions
9. Use Brookfield’s reflection model to evaluate your own practices by integrating inputs and engaging in collaborative practices from different disciplines

On successful completion of the course, participants will be:

• Equipped with the knowledge, rationale, and strategies/skills to support children with SEN in literacy through conceptual teaching and instruction

DAS Academy will be delivering this course with these modes of learning: Classroom, Synchronous & Asynchronous E-learning.

This course will only proceed with a minimum of 15 participants.

• Written Assessment
• Oral Interview 
• Role-Play

Statement of Attainment