New BDA courses for 2011

The British Dyslexia Association has announced a list of new courses around the country. They are for:

Parents – Practical Solutions for Dyslexia: Dyslexia at hone and school- cost £35 or free if accompanying a teacher who is also on the Teachers’ course.

Teachers or Teaching Assistants – Practical Solutions for Dyslexia: supporting dyslexia inclusively - a 3 hour morning or afternoon session for £69. Teachers and Teaching Assistants- Dealing with Dyscalculia – also a 3 hour session which can sometimes be taken alongside the Practical Solutions for Dyslexia course. £69

Teachers and Teaching Assistants – Screening for Dyslexia – a whole day course for £125.

None of the venues is particularly local, but there are courses in Reading, Oxford, Bristol and London. Details of times and venues as well as application forms can be found on the BDA site http://www.bdadyslexia.org/.

Librivox – free audio books

On the BDA forum recently, Jamie Munro drew attention to the American site Librivox -  http://librivox.org . Their objective is to make all books in the ‘public domain’ available – for free - in audio format on the internet.
‘Public domain’ means that the books are no longer subject to coyright legislation. In the USA this generally means texts that have been published before 1923.
The books are read by volunteers so the quality is variable. However, Jamie drew attention to the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which you could try before downloading http://www.archive.org/details/adventures_sherlock_holmes_rg_librivox
 The Internet Archive http://www.archive.org  also has loads of old radio versions of the Sherlock Holmes stories you can download to you MP3 player or listen to online. Although these are not all written by Conan Doyle, here are more than 125 featuring among others Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce and Sir John Gielgud and Sir Ralph Richardson.http://www.archive.org/details/OTR_Sherlock_Holmes_smurfmeat .
Happy listening!

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Training day for the Committee!

Sue McKenna and I have been glued to our computer screens today, learning how to edit our new website. We have been tutored by one of our newest committee members – Sue Kerrigan , who has designed the new website for us. She had her “patient” head on (just as well!) and provided endless drinks and strawberries and cream!

We love the new editing software and hope you like our new and very interactive site. Please let us know what you think.