Dyslexia Testing Australian Dyslexia Association Inc
Education in Gold Coast

For further information please email. Suspect dyslexia? this is the place to start! the ada is an incorporated non profit association which offers information for parents,teachers, educators and others about dyslexia and their individual learning needs.

AA are concerned with the healthy being, identification and educational intervention of all who struggle with aspects of spoken and written language.The AA believes that all individuals with dyslexia or a related difference deserve the correct to grasp their learning difference and have access to evidence based instruction. The AA supports and provides accredited training in evidence based instruction with the addition of a multisensory component. Direct, explicit and structured language instruction with a multisensory component can help all students including those with dyslexia and related difficulties. It's about being a school that has teachers who enjoy diversity and have the skills to teach every student in their classroom. It's about children who respect that we all learn differently. It's about a unbiased go and a glossy playing field so that every kid has equal access to the curriculum AA Board. Research From the University of British Columbia,Vancouver Psychometric IQ (Wisc) assessments and discrepancy are not needed for the identification of dyslexia or related differences. Safe Advice : Often parents are bombarded with websites that present their own interpretation of dyslexia geared at selling their product. Dyslexia is language based and is lifelong and cannot be cured but it can be treated.The treatment needs to be educational and center on teaching the skills needed for reading, spelling and writing and the way each child's brain can process, retain and reuse those skills when required. A kid with dyslexia will receive a lot longer to receive the needed skills (that dyslexia impedes upon) but it is possible. With an understanding of evidence based practices, current reading research in science, linguistics and education a healthy trained teacher or educator can start to identify dyslexia and assess the areas required for instruction so that teaching can commence as soon as possible. The Australian Dyslexia Association Inc.(AA) is concerned with the healthy being, identification and educational treatment of those with dyslexia.