ABC.net—the Australian Broadcasting Corporation—reported that local politicians are discussing the need for additional specialists to help students with Learning Disabilities.
The Opposition’s education spokeswoman, Sue Napier, is calling on the State Government to fund more specialist staff to help school students with learning disabilities.
Ms Napier says a lack of specialists such as speech pathologists in schools means many children with disabilities such as dyslexia are failing to achieve basic literacy.
She says more than 10% of Tasmanian children suffer from some form of learning disability.
The full story is pretty brief, but here’s the link.
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Instructivist on LS
It was heartening (sort of like a little kid getting a pat on the head) to see that Instructivist caught the same story debunking learning styles from Great Britain that LD Blog covered recently. Wooohoo!
Instructivist’s coverage (but check the comments). (Link to a list of our earlier posts on this belt-level approach that’s based on virtually no evidence of effectiveness.)
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