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            Events



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Updates on this events page are detailed in the email newsletter.  All prices are in New Zealand dollars.

2010

Every Friday afternoon
7pm - 9pm

Adult Learning Clinic

Step By Step Centre

Christchurch

Fri 26th February
9am - 3pm

Remedial Literacy Training Day

Step By Step Centre

Christchurch

Wed 3rd March
7pm - 9pm

Understanding Dyslexia Parent Evening

Step By Step Centre

Christchurch

Wed 17th March
7pm - 9pm

F.A.T City Parent Evening

Step By Step Centre

Christchurch

Adult Learning Clinic

Date:
Every Friday Afternoon

Time:
2 hour session between 1pm - 5pm

Cost:
$20 including GST

Location:
Step By Step Centre
502 Wairakei Road
Burnside
Christchurch

Presenter:
Ros Lugg

Signup/enquire:
Phone: (03) 359 2935
Fax: (03) 359 2937
Email: info@learningstaircase.co.nz

Individual learning programs with support from specialist teachers.

Remedial Literacy Training Day

Date:
Fri 27th November

Time:
9am - 3pm

Cost:
$90 inc GST per person
$60 inc GST for each additional person from the same organisation

Location:
Step By Step Centre
502 Wairakei Road
Burnside
Christchurch

Presenter:
Ros Lugg

Signup/enquire:
Phone: (03) 359 2935
Fax: (03) 359 2937
Email: info@learningstaircase.co.nz

The morning will cover the theory and principles and the afternoon session focuses on the practicalities.

  • Understanding the processing skills involved in literacy.
  • Development of phonological awareness.
  • Stages of literacy development.
  • Difficulties faced learners with processing difficulties.
  • Effective remedial approaches.
  • Using specialist software effectively.

This course is for people working in the adult learning sector with learners with literacy difficulties.

Understanding Dyslexia Parent Evening

Date:
Wed 3rd March

Time:
7pm - 9pm

Cost:
Free - Learning Staircase parents
$2 - Anyone else

Location:
Step By Step Centre
502 Wairakei Road
Burnside
Christchurch

Presenter:
Ros Lugg

Signup/enquire:
Phone: (03) 359 2935
Fax: (03) 359 2937
Email: info@learningstaircase.co.nz

Understanding what dyslexia is and how it affects learning. Plenty of practical ideas on how to support dyslexic learners at home and at school.

F.A.T City Parent Evening

Date:
Wed 17th March

Time:
7pm - 9pm

Cost:
Free - Learning Staircase parents
$2 - Anyone else

Location:
Step By Step Centre
502 Wairakei Road
Burnside
Christchurch

Presenter:
Jos Harden

Signup/enquire:
Phone:
(03) 359 2935
Fax:
(03) 359 2937
Email:
info@learningstaircase.co.nz

Experience the same fustration anxiety and tension that people with learning difficulties face in their daily lives.

 

Presenter

Ros Lugg

Ros Lugg is a UK and NZ trained educational specialist, whose main focus is remedial literacy teaching and learning difficulties/disabilities.  She is an experienced teacher and qualified dyslexia tutor and assessor with extensive experience in NZ and UK schools.

Ros has many years of mainstream teaching experience - and is also the mother and wife of dyslexics!  Previous specialist experience includes being Head of English and Special Needs in a school for boys with severe emotional and behavioural needs and class teacher for children with severe and profound learning disabilities.  NZ experience includes setting up a specialist teaching unit at St Andrew's College and five years as a tester at the Seabrook McKenzie Centre, some of that time as Assistant Director.

Ros is the author of the successful remedial literacy courses, Steps to Literacy and First Steps.  Ros also provides professional development and consultancy services to a variety of primary and high schools, as well as to adult educational providers and is an experienced conference speaker.



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