News & events

AchieveAbility supports the British Dyslexia Association call for people to sign their petition  for a compulsory module on Dyslexia  within intitial teacher training courses. The petition needs to reach 100,000 signatures for a debate to happen in the House of Commons.

Please go to : http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/20674

London 2012 Inspire Programme endorses the Inspiring Posters Project

AchieveAbility has achieved endorsement from the

Olympics for their creative concept to deliver a project in

Schools in East London. The project will encourage visual

learning and communication skills for young people who

 might be Dyslexic. The Inspiring Posters Project will be

delivered in collaboration with the Arts Dyslexia Trust.

http://www.education.gov.uk/inthenews/inthenews/a0074851/government-response-to-the-latest-neets-figures

The Links into Languages event on 16 February profiled a range of student centred projects delivered across London. The event included speed briefing about the different approaches to the teaching practice in the schools by language specialists.

http://www.linksintolanguages.ac.uk/london/index.html

Thank you to Dr Ross Cooper for taking the Chair of AchieveAbility. Ross Cooper comes to AchieveAbility with a great deal of expertise in the area of Learning Styles. He is a national figure with many years of experience in FE and HE.

In addition AchieveAbility would like to thank Margaret Rooms of Dyslexia Action for providing a future venue for meetings