New Courses for 2010/2011

Understanding Dyslexia

3 new half-day workshops aimed at promoting a positive and informed approach for those working with dyslexic adults. These will be held at the Adult Dyslexia Centre but can also be delivered on site.

1. The Dyslexic Student - for tutors and trainers in Adult Learning settings.
2. The Dyslexic Client - for information and advice providers.
3. The Dyslexic Employee - for HR staff, managers and Occupational Health workers.
 

For course details click on the following links:

Queen's Award for Voluntary Service

Debbie and two trustees of the Centre, Richard and Tracy, were privileged to go to a reception at Bearwood College on Friday 2nd March 2010 for the Berkshire charities nominated for the prestigious Queen's Award for Voluntary Service. At the reception each charity nominated for this year's award was given a gold framed certificate of achievement. The overall winners will be announced at the beginning of June and will be chosen from a large number of voluntary bodies nationwide. The award is the equivalent of an MBE for a voluntary group.
Of course, not everyone can be a winner, but at the reception, it was made clear how much the contribution of the voluntary services is valued.

Photo link: www.stphotos.co.uk  (at the site click on 'enter online album' and then 'events') 

Wednesday Daytime Classes

Moving on with Learning

Class runs every Wednesday in term time, 10am - 12 noon
Autumn Term starts September 15th 2010.
 

AGM

The AGM for the centre was held on July 20th 2010, click on the link below to download the related document:

Minutes of AGM 

Third time lucky!!

The Adult Dyslexia Centre (Thames Valley) has been awarded a grant of £10,900 from the Learning Skills Council (LSC) to provide intensive group teaching and 1 to 1 tuition to 12 disadvantaged unemployed clients who have considerable barriers to progressing in employment or education. The project will start in September 2009 and run for one year. The clients will be drawn from the Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Bracknell, Wokingham and Reading area.

The Adult Dyslexia Centre (ADC) is based in Maidenhead but operates throughout Berkshire and encompasses the whole Thames Valley. They have recently been delivering a series of dyslexia awareness training sessions, sponsored by the BNLCP, for neighbourhood learning centre and community learning staff. This is the third bid submitted by the ADC with the support of Bruce Wright, the BNLCP funding consultant and it was third time lucky. But as we know, the better you prepare, the luckier you become.

Awards for ADC!

Adult Dyslexia Centre has also been successful with its own bid for Awards for All funding. We have been given £2,700 to extend our mentoring programme over the coming year.

Well done to all those involved in the bid writing. 

Matrix Standard, January 2009

The Adult Dyslexia centre was awarded the Matrix Standard again when the centre was reassessed. This is the national quality standard for the information, advice and guidance on learning and work that our centre offers.

Click here to see our details on the Matrix website.

Dyslexia (Untied) United

Our successful 30 minute film "Dyslexia (Untied) United' was produced by members using Arts Council money in summer 2007 and can be viewed below or downloaded as a podcast.

Dyslexia Assessments

Due to a bursary from Social Enterprise Berkshire, we have been able to purchase assessment materials and now have a team of 4 qualified tutors to carry out full dyslexia assessments from Easter 2007. 

Talklets from Textic installed on our website

We are very pleased to be using the latest text-to-speech technology on our website.
Go to www.textit.com to find out more about this product.