Are you looking for a workshop to help you understand LD and find out how to help your own child? Are you a teacher who has not been trained in remedial education and who needs some guidance on how to address the needs of your LD learners? This workshop is for you.
Each month a different aspect of LD will be addressed. The modules will be filled with the latest information, practical advice and suggestions, and activities and worksheets where appropriate, to help a child of any age who has learning disabilities. Unlimited support is offered while working on each module.
Each module will cost R100.00 payable by direct deposit. If you are interested in purchasing any of the following modules, please email us for our bank details at: info@learning-workshop.co.za
COMMENTS FROM PARTICIPANTS IN THE WORKSHOP
- I have personally grown from the information received, as well as being able to understand and treat my children better. I recommend it to any parent or teacher that struggles to understand the LD child. Lorraine
- I have found them to be very informative and full of ideas. It has given me tools to help my child, something concrete that I can use ... Most importantly, I feel these modules have given me hope - there is a positive message underlying the whole process which I find uplifting. Anna
- This is a must ... we have direction and my child is making progress at last. I'm able to work with him from home, without the huge financial outlay that burdened us over the last couple of years. June
- Thank you for helping my child. She is beginning to achieve success and now her self-esteem is improving on a daily basis. Claire Ann
- It's been hard work and a huge commitment, but we're starting to see results. Excellent activities, easy to do, and loads of ideas. John and Tanya
REMEDIAL WORKSHOP MODULES
The following modules are now available to purchase
MODULE ONE
UNDERSTANDING LEARNING DISABILITIES
What is a learning disability?
- Defining the problem
- Naming the problem
- The processes of the brain
- Good news
What are the types of learning disabilities?
- LD classifications
- Primary characteristics of learning disabilities
- Secondary characteristics of learning disabilities
- Specific or general?
What causes learning disabilities?
- Prenatal factors
- Perinatal factors
- Postnatal factors
- Genetic factors
- Environmental factors
Does my child have a learning disability?
- Developmental milestones
- Preschool indicators
- School indicators
What can we do about LD?
- Assessments
- Contact with the school
- Schools for special educational needs
- Remedial therapy / Learning support
MODULE TWO LIVING WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES AT HOME LD and family dynamics
- Marriage under pressure
- Tips for dad’s involvement
- Sibling issues
Parenting Skills
- Feelings are contagious
- Unconditional acceptance
- Self esteem
- Success stories
Survival strategies
- Establish a routine
- Get organised
- Supervise the chores
- What’s in his lunchbox?
Behaviour management
- Laying the foundations
- Implementing the change
- Acquiring social skills
Homework management
- Discussion with teacher
- Designated workspace and time
- Supplies Environment
- Organisation Breaks
- Monitor the time
- Motivation
- Encouragement
The challenge of television
- The effects
- Meet the challenge
MODULE THREE HELPING THE LD CHILD AT SCHOOL What the White Paper says
- Barriers to learning
- Inclusive education
Identification of the LD child
- Informal observations
- Visual perception
- Auditory perception
- Memory Language
Assessments
- Are they necessary?
- What do they test?
- The IQ test explained
- Individual Education Programmes
Classroom strategies
- Accommodations and modifications
- Tips for successful classroom management
Behaviour management techniques
MODULE FOUR
ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER
Understanding attention deficits and hyperactivity
- Does my child have ADHD?
- Accompanying disorders
- Gender differences
- The link between ADHD and learning disabilities
Treatment
- Medication treatment
- - Side effects
- - Good results
- - Is Ritalin safe?
- Nutrition treatment
- - Balanced diet
- - Supplements
- Behaviour management
- - Parenting the ADHD child
- - ADHD in the classroom
Not only children
- Adult ADD: fact or myth?
- An overview of ADD in adults
Latest research
- Brain differences
- New eye test
- Seasonal allergies
- Diet to ease attention disorder
MODULE FIVE
PERCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENT
Early development
- What is perception?
- Get ready for school
- - Language and thinking
- - Visual perception
- - Auditory perception
- - Mathematical skills
- - Fine motor skills
- - Gross motor skills
- - Play dough recipe
- - Salt dough recipe
Visual perception
- Common areas of difficulty
- - Visual discrimination
- - Spatial relation
- - Visual memory
- - Visual figure-ground
- - Visual sequencing
- - Visual-motor integration
- Intervention
- Activities to improve visual skills
Auditory perception
- Common areas of difficulty
- - Phonological awareness
- - Auditory discrimination
- - Auditory memory
- - Auditory sequencing
- - Auditory blending
- - Auditory figure-ground
- Intervention
- Activities to improve auditory skills
MODULE SIX
READING INTERVENTION
Learning to read
- At home
- At school
- Reading milestones
Reinforcing reading skills
- Phonological awareness
- - The alphabetic principle
- - Activities for the alphabetic principle
- - Phonemic awareness
- - Activities for phonemic awareness
- Reading fluency
- - Activities for word recognition
- - Activities for decoding
- - Activities for reading rate
- Comprehension
- - Vocabulary extension
- - Active comprehension strategies
- - Monitoring
Dyslexia
- Dyslexia facts
- What are the symptoms of dyslexia?
- How you can help your child
MODULE SEVEN
SPELLING AND WRITING INTERVENTION
Learning to spell
- Why can't he spell?
- Activities to improve perceptual skills
- - Visual discrimination
- - Auditory discrimination
- - Visual memory and sequencing
- - Auditory memory
- - Analysis and synthesis
- - Body concept
- Planning your lessons
Word lists
- Activities for learning lists of words
- - Listen for sounds
- - Analyse and colour code
- - Dot-to-dot letter practise
- - Word shapes
- - Visual images
- - Missing letters
- - Write a sentence
- - Proofread and correct
- - Testing
- - The Spelling Whiz
- High frequency words
- Spelling rules
Phonics
Sentences, paragraphs and stories
- Why does he hate writing?
- Skill development
- Basic framework
- - Planning
- - Revising and editing
- Writing for a purpose
- - At home
- - At school
MODULE EIGHT
MATHEMATICS INTERVENTION
Is he maths-ready?
- From concrete to problem solving
- Developing number skills
- Determining maths readiness
Where did it all go wrong?
- What is a maths disability?
- Where does it come from?
- What skills are affected?
- Identify and address
- Tackling the homework
- Maths in daily life
Coping strategies
- Developing mathematical vocabulary
- Adding and subtracting
- Multiplying
- Dividing
- Times tables matrix
- Word sums
Play and learn
- Terminology
- Activities to improve mathematical skills
- - Mathematics in the home
- - Mathematics at the supermarket
- - Mathematics on the go
- - Mathematics for the fun of it
MODULE NINE
STUDY SKILLS
Our amazing brain
- How it works
- Balance is best
- Train the RAS
Preparation is the key to success
- Develop good study habits
- Draw up a study planner
- How to approach exams
- Putting it in perspective
Remember, remember ...
- Preferred learning style
- Understanding the learning and memory problem
- Creativity
- Brainstorming
- Effective study methods
- - Reading with a purpose
- - Mind maps
- - Acronyms
- - Mnemonics
- - Word associations
- - Story technique
- - Number shape memory system
