A reflection on reading difficulty and assessment

How things have changed in the last few years. Where there was once little to read in relation to reading difficulty, now there is a mountain. Parents, understandably are concerned about their child’s lack of progress with literacy and learning, especially given the perceived decline of standards in Australian education and lower relative levels of achievement, compared to more progressive parts of the world

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What’s in the name?

While attending a school as an advocate for a recently assessed child last week, an interesting comment was made by the teacher in charge of literacy. She made the comment that at that school they do not use the term ‘Dyslexia’, as they do not believe that such a thing exists. Interestingly this was a school in the State system, where it was thought there had been some enlightenment around the topic.

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