Frequently Asked Questions How will I be assessed? There are a range of activities, Dyslexia Academy Forum Contribution, quizzes, lesson plans and evaluations are required for submission in the Level 4 Certificate. Activities and quizzes are included within the course at designated assessment check points, with further screening and intervention assessments being completed within the module 2 and module 3 Study Guides. Successful competition of the course will require completed and accurate submission of Study Guides 1, 2 & 3. What is the Screening Practice & 10 hour intervention? You need to find someone who has some literacy learning difficulties who you will be screening for dyslexia before planning and implementing an intervention for a total of 10 hours. We will refer to this person as your ‘Learner’. This course gives you an opportunity to really observe a Learner with a specific learning difficulty (potentially dyslexia) rather than someone who is struggling with all aspects of learning (general or global learning difficulties). Your Learner could be a pupil in the school you work in, or if you are a tutor, it could be one of your students. It could be a child of a family friend. You will also need an independent party who can sign off your lesson plans and evaluations before you submit them and confirm that the full 10-hours of the intervention has been completed. This could be another teacher in school, or if you are a tutor or working with a friend’s child, your Learner’s parent could sign (using their initials to preserve anonymity). Please note that you may also be asked to provide some anonymised evidence of the work your Learner has completed (screenshots, printouts, photocopies). It isn’t usually appropriate to work with one of your own children for a course like this. Firstly, the dynamics can be a bit challenging as many children prefer parents to be parents and don’t respond well to having even more lessons, especially after a long day in school or at weekends! This can be frustrating for their parent too. Secondly, there might not be an obvious independent party to verify your paperwork. We do understand that a lot of people are motivated to train because they have a child who’s struggling: so please be reassured that this course should equip you with very valuable skills to help you understand and support your own children too. It may be best if your Learner isn’t already doing a lot of interventions in school as it could be difficult to justify them having even more time out of the classroom. It could also be confusing to the Learner as some of the strategies taught could be different in other interventions (e.g. how to split words into syllables or chunks or phonemes). Once you’ve found a potential Learner, it’s usually good practice to ask for permission from their parents/carers before you go ahead with screening them. This is also an opportunity to get some valuable background information which will help you build a profile of your Learner. We have provided a template letter for this Will I be able to diagnose dyslexia? The Dyslexia Academy Level 4 Certificate in Professional Development: Dyslexia Awareness, Comprehensive Screening, and Targeted Interventions equips practitioners with the skills to confidently screen for dyslexia using a variety of tools. While this course does not authorise practitioners to diagnose dyslexia—a task reserved for Level 7 qualified specialists—it provides a strong foundation in dyslexia screening. In addition, this
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