This service is a team of Hammersmith and Fulham teachers who all have specialist dyslexia qualifications. The team have particular expertise and experience in assessing and teaching literacy and numeracy skills where children are having difficulties. We provide a bespoke service to match individual school’s needs and capacity. We work closely with a school together with teachers, parents and governors to provide continuity and coherence in the provision and support for pupils.
The service aims to adopt a flexible approach to identifying a school’s area of need and match this to our professional specialist service. The service provided can be targeted at a whole school, group or individual level and offers the following:
• direct teaching for individual pupils or small groups
• advice on planning individual evidence based intervention programmes
• baseline assessment, target setting, tracking and evaluation of pupil’s progress
• diagnostic assessments and teaching pupils with specific learning difficulties (dyslexia)
• advice on good practice for pupils with specific learning difficulties as well as collaborative working with schools to support curriculum access for pupils with dyslexia, literacy and numeracy difficulties
• training for teachers and support staff through school based INSETS and events
• assessments for exam access arrangements Flexible INSET for teachers and LSAs is available on a variety of topics including:
• development of whole school specialist teaching skills
• developing dyslexia friendly schools
• what is dyslexia?
• assessments of early literacy
• use and analysis of running records for reading
• the reading process – individual, shared and guided reading at KS1 and KS2
• the writing process – individual, shared and guided writing at KS1 and KS2
• supporting pupils with spelling, reading and writing difficulties