Meetings

Tuesday 7th July at 8 pm via Zoom

Supporting Dyslexic Pupils with Reading Comprehension  by Denise Drinkwater, Education Consultant (neurodiversity)

Improving Comprehension

Reading involves looking at words and symbols on a page and understanding what they mean. Yet it is so much more than that; it involves language, vocabulary, world knowledge and memory. As well as executive function skills that allow you to connect what you have read to what you already know.

This workshop will look at how to develop the skills needed to gain a deeper understanding of the text before and as we read. It will also delve into evidence-based techniques that can be used to improve comprehension strategies.

Denise Drinkwater has a wealth of experience and expertise in neurodiversity and mental health issues. She became a specialist teacher after seeing her own children struggling in the school environment. She continues to work with children from ages 4 to 16 as well as adults; often working with complex cases. She does her best to ensure that the people that she works with feel safe and understood. This involves being flexible and sensitive to the child’s needs session by session. The sessions are fun and multi-sensory, completely tailored to the child/young person. The child’s confidence and self-esteem is key.

Denise is a very experienced consultant specialist teacher specialising in dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalculia and Executive Functions. Advising parents, schools, corporate bodies and specialists in both training and consulting capacities. Denise set up and ran a small independent junior school for children who are dyslexic, dyspraxic and/or dyscalculic in North London. The school closed to full time children in July 2019 but still offers its part time daytime tuition, parent support and summer school classes, as well as running workshops and training for teachers/schools/parents. Denise is also very experienced in mental health needs and difficulties as well as trauma.

Denise has a Masters in Inclusion and Special Education from Institute of Education (UCL) and regularly attends mental health, inclusion and SEN conferences both nationally and internationally. She also regularly gives lectures/workshops to organisations supporting SPLD and has been involved in research projects and publications relating to DCD, reading and autism.

If you would like to join this meeting on Zoom, please register in advance by emailing your first name, surname and email address to: 
admin@suttondyslexia.org.uk

You will receive an acknowledgment and the access details will be sent by email on the morning of the meeting.