Dyslexia Network Plus

Summer term Newsletter

dyslexianetworkplus — Mon, 14 May 2012 16:46:46 +0000

The Summer term Newsletter can be seen and downloaded here

Special Membership offer

dyslexianetworkplus — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:56:15 +0000

There will be a special membership offer for February – March 2012

Neil Mackay Workshops

dyslexianetworkplus — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:51:58 +0000

For details of upcoming events click here

NEIL MACKAY WORKSHOPS at EASINGWOLD HIGH SCHOOL

Friday 23 March

Talk: Learning how to Learn – dealing with homework and revision skills : suitable for secondary and 6th form students

and Saturday 24 March

Supporting Children at home and school : two Workshop sessions for parent and child

These workshops help parents and children to work together to tackle the literacy issues that result from dyslexia. This has been a turning point for many children who have attended previous sessions run by Neil.

For more information and venue location and booking www.tinyurl.com/DnplusMackay

Email: dnplus@aol.com Tel: 0845 22 60 240

British Dyslexia Association e-petition for Dyslexia Training for new teachers

dyslexianetworkplus — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:46:21 +0000

The B.D.A. has launched a petition to the government requesting that sufficient dyslexia training be provided as part of Initial Teacher Training.

They need 100,000 signatures to trigger a debate in Parliament, so they need to pull out all the stops on this one. If you agree with the petition would you please sign it, and even more importantly, join with us by passing on this request and link to everyone you know or meet who might be willing to do the same.

Here is a link direct to the petition:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20674

ICT and your dyslexic child talk

dyslexianetworkplus — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:09:33 +0000

The handouts for this talk can be found here

Support in MS Word

dyslexianetworkplus — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:01:47 +0000

You can find out how MS Word can be set up to provide support for dyslexic users who want to work more independently at MS Word support

New Dyslexia Support Group for Harrogate Area

dyslexianetworkplus — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:03:49 +0000

It is good news to hear that a new dyslexia support group : Harrogate and District Literacy and Dyslexia Network, is having an open meeting

Attention all Parents & Teaching Professionals!

A Presentation by Janet Robinson,

Principal at Dyslexia Action, Harrogate.

Thursday October 6th

7.30pm

Coronation Hall Boroughbridge

Spaces are limited, so please book your place by contacting

Julie Moorhouse on 07515 462666/email
ross.moorhouse@btinternet.com

Dylexia Network Plus wishes them all the best and hopes to collaborate with them.

New Handy Guide

dyslexianetworkplus — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:17:40 +0000

There is a new handy guide on touch typing for dyslexia Learn to touchtype

2010 in review

dyslexianetworkplus — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:43:44 +0000

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is on fire!.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,000 times in 2010. That’s about 7 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 4 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 5 posts. There were 9 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 2mb. That’s about a picture per month.

The busiest day of the year was March 23rd with 281 views. The most popular post that day was Home.

Where did they come from?

The top referring sites in 2010 were bdadyslexia.org.uk, WordPress Dashboard, medwaydys.org, mail.live.com, and thirsk.org.uk.

Some visitors came searching, mostly for dyslexia network plus, www.dyslexianetworkplus.org.uk, dyslexia darlington, dyslexianetworkplus, and dyslexianetworkplus.org.uk.

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

Home February 2009

Services February 2009

Events February 2009

What is Dyslexia? February 2009

Contact Details February 2009

Welcome

dyslexianetworkplus — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 20:26:32 +0000

This is the website of the Local Dyslexia Association for North Yorkshire.

We hope you find our information helpful