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Important Rose and No to Failure Reports Published

Patoss welcomes the recommendations of Jim Rose’s Review and the government’s wholehearted endorsement of these recommendations.

The Rose Report is clear in its endorsement of appropriate support for dyslexic-SpLD pupils.

The review states ‘It is very important for every school to have easy access to a teacher with a good understanding of: the barriers children can experience in acquiring and developing their literacy skills – including dyslexia; other difficulties faced by children who have dyslexia; and other specific learning difficulties’

Major recommendations include:

Training 4000 specialist teachers in dyslexia over the next two years to ‘provide substantially improved access to specialist expertise in all schools and across all local authority areas’

Boosting early identification (eg. from Year 1) and effective intervention for pupils with dyslexic difficulties

Providing training for all classroom teachers to be able to identify children at risk of dyslexia and know what steps are needed to help them

Providing training for teachers on selecting, implementing , monitoring and evaluating literacy intervention programmes

Putting more special educational needs training [including dyslexia] into initial teacher training courses

Schools should be building a positive dialogue with parents and provide relevant information for them

Schools should be providing support for children with dyslexia at transfer to secondary school

Continuing Helpline advice for parents and teachers.

This is a very significant week for the world of dyslexia and for special education. The Rose Review is published this week along with the final report of the No to Failure project and Professor Chris Singleton’s Research Review of Dyslexia Provision. These reports can be accessed by the links below.
Rose Review
No to Failure Final Report
Singleton Intervention for Dyslexia: Research Review

Patoss welcomes the recommendations of Jim Rose’s Review and the government’s wholehearted endorsement of these recommendations.

Lynn Greenwold, Chief Executive of Patoss and chair of The Dyslexia-SpLD Trust said:
“No to Failure was the beginning of this campaign.

"No to Failure demonstrated good practice and what works with Dyslexic-SpLD pupils. The message is clear, Dyslexia-SpLD training is essential – for quality first teaching in the classroom and to provide specialist SpLD teachers to work with pupils with more complex Dyslexia-SpLD. The sooner we embed these skills in all schools the better. With Jim Rose’s recommendations in place we can really make good progress.”

The commitment to training 4000 specialist SpLD teachers is a tremendous acknowledgement of the benefits specialist teachers bring to children with dyslexia-SpLD their parents and the mainstream teaching staff with whom they work.

Patoss is proud of the work it has done in supporting the No to Failure Campaign which served as a catalyst to getting Jim Rose’s review commissioned. We will continue working in conjunction with the Dyslexia-SpLD Trust to support the implementation of these recommendations.

Our members are an important resource to help embed best practice in schools and contribute to the awareness training of mainstream teaching staff.

Your Views on SEN System Wanted

The Lamb Inquiry is very interested in your views of the SEN system: what underpins parents’ confidence, what undermines it; what works, what doesn’t and what you think should be changed. We have a number of questions that we would like you to answer. Your comments will be entirely confidential and at no time will you be identified.

Special surveys for Students; Parents; School Staff; Other Professionals working with children schools or families. Closing date 30 June 2009. Go to Special Interest pages "Your views on SEN system - Call for evidence".

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