Kingston Dyslexia Association

Talks Programme 2007-2008

Thursday 13^th March 2008

Dyslexia and Individual Learning Styles

This presentation will give an overview of learning styles and go on to give some suggestions about how to identify your child’s preferred learning style. Strategies to encourage children to use their learning strengths will be discussed, and practical ideas for relevant support strategies will be given.

Yvonne Whitestone is Head of Education at the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre.  Her roles include managing the tuition department, tutoring on the OCR teacher training courses, presenting in-service sessions in schools and colleges and carrying out specialist tuition.  

Yvonne worked supporting learners with specific learning difficulties in primary school before studying for the RSA Diploma in Teaching Learners with Specific Learning Difficulties.  She has worked for the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre since 1993 and has taught dyslexic learners at primary, secondary and adult level.  She has recently been involved in a project in conjunction with Xtraordinary People, assessing and teaching young dyslexics in an Inner London school.