Offaly Dyslexia Group

Watch out for our yellow army who are out on the streets shaking their buckets collecting for kids with Dyslexia. Please give generously. Thank you.

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Just a reminder that our Dyslexia information night is on tomorrow night Thursday 4th Oct in the Tullamore Court Hotel. Our guest speakers are Wyn McCormack who is not just a parent of adult children with dyslexia and a teacher but an Author of books on Dyslexia so she is a mind of information. Wyn also runs courses for secondary teachers. We also have Aoife Walsh from Athlone Institute of Technology. Aoife is the Assitive Technology tutor. Aoife will be talking about what assistive technology is available to help with Dyslexia and is bringing along some scanning pens. These are now allowed for leaving cert and junior cert exams. We kick off at 8pm sharp. There’s no need to book just come along we’ll be delighted to see you. Tea and coffee will be available for half an hour before we begin.

Please spread the word around.

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We are holding an information night on Thursday 4th Oct 2018. Speakers on this night will be

1. Wyn McCormack who is a former guidance counsellor and special education teacher, who has designed and presented courses on dyslexia for teachers, parents and students since 1996. She is the author of the Factsheets on Dyslexia at Second Level (2014), Lost for Words, a Practical Guide to Dyslexia at Second Level and co-author of Dyslexia, an Irish Perspective.

2. Aoife Walsh who is an Assistive Technology Tutor from Athlone Institute of Technology. Aoife will speak about Assistive Technology software and Hardware that they currently use in AIT.

The information night will be held in the Tullamore Court Hotel at 8pm.

This is open to the public. All welcome.

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Workshops begin again tonight. 5.30 to 7.30. Castle buildings Tullamore. Looking forward to seeing all out parents and kids. We have still a few places for anyone interested. Drop in at 5.15 or call 086 2309009.

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Our workshop registration/new parents night is on Mon 3rd Sept 2018 at 5.30 in castle buildings. Workshops for kids recommence on Mon 10th Sept. For further information contact 086 2309009

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Our workshops will be restarting in September. We have a few places left. If you are interested or require further information our phone line is now reopened after summer break
086 – 2309009.

We are also taking cvs from any tutors interested in working in our workshops. Must have DAI tutor course or equivalent They can be sent to offalydyslexiagroup@gmail.com

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Next week brings our workshops to a close again for another very successful term. It is 10 years since the small group of parents came together to help their own kids and see if they could help a few others along the way. In that 10 years over 250+ kids and their families have now been helped. We’d like to thank everyone that has helped us in anyway big or small over the past 10 years as without your help none of it would have been possible. Esp thanks to IPB Insurance and Tullamore Credit Union, the Tullamore Parish Junior Parish Council and to the wonderful group of ladies who are running/walking the marathon (we’ve just had to enlarge the bus to a 33 seater). All of your support to the group has been phenomenal.

Our workshops run on a Monday night from 5.30 to 7.30. In castle buildings for which we are now currently taking names of children with Dyslexia aged 7+ .

We are also taking in CVs from primary and secondary school teachers who have relevant dyslexia training.

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