SGDA Dyslexia Therapy
Course
ONLY HPCSA and SACE registered professionals can register for this training and offer diagnosis-specific therapy to dyslexic individuals.
After successfully completing the online course, an assignment will need to be completed in order to register as a SGDA therapist.
Registration Fee: R4850 per delegate
CPD Points: 30
SACE Points: 30
Duration: +/- 40 Hours
After registration, you will only have access for six weeks to the 12 training modules – during which you have to watch all the presentations and complete the different quizzes.
Important Information & Course Outline
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What is Dyslexia?
- 3. Types of Dyslexia
- 4. Teaching a child to read
- 5. Teaching a dyslexic child to read
- 6. Basic skills for Dyslexia Therapy
- 7. Sensory - Motoric Skills
- 8. Dysnemkinesia Therapy
- 9. Dyseidesia Therapy
- 10. Dysphonesia Therapy
- 11. Dysphoneidesia Therapy
- 12. Three more types to go!
- 13. Goals and Expectations of success in therapy
- 14. Stark Griffin Dyslexia Therapy Curriculum
- 15. How a teacher can help a dyslexic student
- 16. Accommodations for the dyslexic child
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- Signs of dyslexia.
- Defining dyslexia.
- Key features.
- Phonological deficit.
- Summary of diffuculties.
- IQ scores and DD dyslexia.
- Undisclosded talents.
- Famous dyslexics.
- Dyslexia re-difinied.
Neuroanatomical model of dyslexia.
Word decoding.
Visually deaf, auditory blind.
7 Subtypes of dyslexia.
The importance of reading.
The Matthew effect.
How does reading work?
Phonemic awareness.
Phonological awareness.
Science of reading.
Comprehension.
Teaching a visually dyslexic child to read.
Teaching an auditory dyslexic child to read.
All children can read.
Sight words.
Writing.
Spelling.
Listening, playing and imagining.
The three C’s.
Visual skills.
Gross- and fine motor skills.
Visual stress.
Audition.
Trigger words.
Internal speech.
Sensory-motor skills.
Cognitive skills.
Laterality.
Directionality.
Memory of movement.
Visual perception.
VMI.
Phonics.
Letters and sounds.
Phonetic word recognition.
Look-say-write.
Blending.
Visual – and auditory gestalts.
Fernald Method flash cards.
Eidetic approach.
TSSO.
The alternative path.
PAST.
The Orton Gillingham Method.
Stark-Griffin VAKT Method.
Spelling app.
Tips to teach.
Dysnemkinphonesia Therapy.
Dysnemkineidesia Therapy.
Dysnemkinphoneidesia Therapy.
Summary.
Multi-disciplinary disorder.
Diagnosing disciplines.
Secondary problems.
ITP.
Therapy products.
Dysnemkinesia.
Dysphonesia.
Dyseidesia.
Dysphoneidesia.
Dysnemkineidesia.
Dysnemkinphonesia.
Dysnemkinphoneidesia.
How teachers can help.
Models of reading.
Top-Down processing.
Teaching modifications.
Teaching tips.
Teaching strategies.
Assistive technology.
Dyslexia-friendly schools.
Classroom accommodations.