Continuing Professional Development

Information for holders of SpLD Assessment Award Practising Certificates and members of professional associations requiring evidence of CPD

BDA International Conference delegates will be provided with a Certificate of Attendance

The conference programme includes papers, symposia and workshops on assessment and intervention across the age range, which will be particularly relevant to practitioners, such as psychologists, specialist teachers and assessors, for example:

Papers on the following subjects areas:

• Assessment, Reading Comprehension, Higher Education, Co-existing SpLDs

Symposia:

• Classroom implications of recent research in literacy development: from predictors to assessment

• Training grapheme-phoneme correspondences

• Number processing and dyscalculia

• Co-morbidities between disorders

Workshops:

• Assessing reading difficulties and interpreting findings

• The practical use and efficacy of intervention programmes for students with reading disorders in secondary education

• Moving from learning support to independent learning skills with students in higher education

The impact of current research on assessment, teaching and intervention