All Party Parliamentary Group for Dyslexia
Contents
APPG Meeting Archive
March 2024 APPG: Intersections of Dyslexia: Ethnicity and Cultural Perspectives
Background reading:
Presentations
Slides
Slides
Archived sessions (2016 - 2023)
September 2023 APPG: Reforming assessment in Secondary Education: How can we provide a fair and relevant evaluation of the knowledge and skills of all learners?
Background reading:
Presentations
Bill Lucas, Director of the Centre for Real-World Learning and Professor of Learning at the University of Winchester
Cath Lowther, Parliamentary Vice-Chair of the Special Educational Consortium and General Secretary of the Association of Educational Psychologists
May 2023 APPG: Perspectives on Early Screening
Presentations
Lynn Greenwold OBE, Chair of SASC, the SpLD Assessment Standards Committee.
Caroline Holden, Assessment Issues Coordinator and acting Vice-Chair of SASC.
Professor Rod Nicolson and Professor Angela Fawcett.
Rachel Simpson, Chair of STEC, SASC鈥檚 SpLD Test Evaluation Committee.
Alison Szalay - Specialist Advisory Teacher, Wiltshire Council SEN Service.
February 2023 APPG: The importance of Early Intervention and Screening and how it can empower our teachers and the children they teach.
December 2022 APPG: Adults, including the Justice System
Presentations/Speeches
Dr Kiran Nijabat (MBBS, BSc, MRCPsych) - Director, Family Wellness Practice
David Breakspear - Revolving Doors' Lived Experience Team
Donna Stevenson - Head of Training & Assessment, Succeed With Dyslexia
Kath Lambert - BDA Helpline Manager
June 2022 APPG: Schools' White Paper and SEND Green Paper - what changes can we expect?
March 2022 APPG: Dyscalculia
September 2021 APPG: Phonics 鈥� and what does the evidence tell us?
Following on from this session. The focus for the remainder of 2021 is to ask the Government to revise their guidance on teaching reading which was published in the Reading Framework in July 2021. This guidance promotes the use of Systematic Synthetic Phonics (SSP) as the sole method for teaching reading. We believe that this does not meet the needs of all students, especially those with dyslexia. We have published a short set of questions and answers to help explain why.
Please note this petition is now closed.
June 2021: APPG
March 2021: APPG
March 2021: Impact of Covid on Learning
December 2020: APPG
October 2019: AGM
October 2019: Educational cost of dyslexia - financial, standards and attainment cost to education of unidentified and poorly supported dyslexia, and a policy pathway to end the educational cost of dyslexia
April 2019: The human cost of dyslexia - the emotional and psychological impact of poorly supported dyslexia
November 2018: Reasonable adjustments in the workplace
March 2018: Where are we on the journey towards comprehensive teacher awareness of their obligations to meet the requirements of the SEND Code of Practice?
- , Liz Horobin, BDA
- , Dr. Yota Dimitriadi, University of Reading
- , Mike Johnson, BDA
- , Joanna Israel, Department for Education
November 2017
- , Dan Baynes, Driver Youth Trust
- , Sue Flohr, BDA
- , Dr Abi James, BDA Technologies Committee and Researcher at University of Southampton
September 2017
June 2017
- (This meeting did not take place due to the general election)
February 2017
October 2016
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