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Programmes & resources for Parents
Understanding Words is a structured teaching programme for students with word-level reading and spelling weaknesses. It also includes vocabulary, reading comprehension, and grammatical exercises. Development of the programme was based on the scientific reading literature. Our data has demonstrated its effectiveness when administered by a parent in the home with brief training and ongoing support from a clinician.
Tip Sheets & Forms
The Tip Sheets & Forms pages provide information about a number of common developmental dysfunctions and information about specific disorders and dysfunctions, such as ADHD, dyslexia, Asperger’s Syndrome, and memory weaknesses. The Tip Sheets & Forms pages also provide suggestions for how teachers can help student with these learning differences and a number of useful parent handouts and clinical tools, such as a Medication Monitoring Tool for ADHD.
The Family, Academic, Affective, Cognitive, and Teacher (FAACT) Model. The model and associated explanations helps understand the interdependent nature of cognitive, academic, behavioural, affective (emotional), neurological, experiential, family, peer, and school factors in explaining school and social success and failure.
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