Educational Psychologist CPD for supporting Literacy Difficulties

The Literacy: A Path For All course for Educational Psychologists. 

• Training: The course is in eLearning format, broken down into seven core chapters to increase knowledge and skills across key areas relating to literacy difficulties and our role as an Educational Psychologist. Each core module encompasses a series of subchapters, containing short animated videos, which you can view at your own pace.
• Content Packed: Following a delve into literacy development, difficulties and dyslexia, the course progresses to build our understanding of effective assessment, accommodation and intervention at the family, whole class, small group and intensive levels of support. But this is more than a literacy course; it equips us with the knowledge and skills to be part of over-arching systemic changes; working towards a system in which every child can develop strong literacy skills and provide each of them with the lifelong benefits which literacy brings.
• Framework for Intervention: A Response to Intervention (RTI) model is explored in detail at the three levels and offers a structured framework of how we, as Educational Psychologists can work at the individual, family, school and wider systems all with the aim to affect real, lasting change.

Literacy: A Path For All CPD Contents

Brief Introduction

• Getting Started with the course (how to use?)

1.  What is Literacy?

1. What is literacy?
2. Orthographies
3. Literacy Development: Reading and Phonological Awareness
4. Literacy Development: Handwriting, Spelling and Composition Development
5. Models of Skilled Reading
6. How Reading is Taught
7. Dr James Wagstaffe Interview: Dynamic Systems Interaction-Compensatory Model of Second Language Reading

2.  Literacy Difficulties and Dyslexia

1. Defining Dyslexia
2. The Neurobiology of Literacy Difficulties
3. The Prevalence Of Literacy Difficulties
4. Areas of Need to Look Out For
5. Models of Dyslexia
6. So What? Identify, Acknowledge & Respond
7. Interview with Professor Joe Elliott

3. EP Practice at different levels

1. Literacy Support: Individual Level
2. Literacy Support: Family Level
3. Literacy Support: Whole School Level
4. Literacy Support: Wider Systems Level

4. Response to Intervention – Tier 1

1. Response to Intervention – Tier 1
2. Screening
3. High Quality Teaching
4. Accessible Classrooms
5. Making Things Sustainable
6. Monitoring Progress
7. Summary and Conclusions

5. Response to Intervention – Tier 2

1. Response to Intervention – Tier 2
2. Features of Effective Intervention
3. Targeting Intervention
4. Delivering Interventions
5. Monitoring Progress

6. Response to Intervention – Tier 3

1. Response to Intervention – Tier 3
2. Specific Assessments
3. Selecting Standardised Assessments
4. A Model for Assessment and Intervention
5. Personalising Interventions
6. Assistive Technology
7. Preparation for Adulthood
8. SENCO Interview

7. The Tangled Web

1. The Tangled Web
2. Wider Impacts Of Literacy: Emotional
3. Wider Impacts Of Literacy: Poverty and Inequality
4. Wider Impacts Of Literacy: Health
5. Wider Impacts Of Literacy: Criminal Justice System
6. To Label or Not To Label
7. If you've met one person...
8. Why so much disagreement?
9. “Yeah, but…”: Responding to Common Arguments
10. Summary

Summary & CPD Certificate

• Summary, recap and a few final tips / resources
• CPD Certificate

Literacy: A Path For All provides over 1.5 days of condensed CPD / training. While this could be completed within a day and a half, we'd suggest allocating around 2 days in total (either consecutively or spread across several weeks / months) to engage in the reflective activities and be able to explore all the available resources.

You have a year's access to all training and content. This gives you the chance to use the course for not just initial CPD development, but to return and use as a reference guide over time. 

Absolutely! Dr Joanna Stanbridge is an active participant in the Literacy: A Path For All course community and encourages course participants to ask questions 😊

Although this is an online course, we do still want to promote interaction, collaboration and sharing of practice – so please do look at the descriptive content under each subchapter, where there is also a space to share comments, thoughts and reflections, and to ask questions. We signpost and link a lot of resources here as well, updating these in response to your questions and comments.

Yes, we can offer a discount for group / whole services licensing, and combined course purchases (i.e. Executive Functions, Literacy: A Path For All and / or EBSA Horizons). Please contact us by clicking here to enquire.

As EPs ourselves, we're keen to make sure this (and all of our courses) are accessible for assistants and trainees, and have a specific discount which we can offer them for any CPD course. Contact us by clicking here to discuss.

The course is self-paced, so you can access any Chapter / video at a time which is convenient for you.

Once you sign up, you have a year's access to all training and content. This gives you the chance to use the course for not just initial CPD development, but to return and use as a reference guide / ask questions about over time.

Yes! And a lot of your colleagues have already joined!

This course is designed for educational professionals with experience and background knowledge in this area. When on the course, you’ll find that it covers the key theoretical foundations before moving on to give us the knowledge and tools to extend upon our current practice and further improve outcomes for CYP. If you join and find that it’s not for you, we’re always happy to provide a refund.