Most people are staggered to learn that there is no legal obligation to include anything about dyslexia in teacher training courses. Time and time again we get teachers bemoaning the fact that they were not told anything really helpful about it – “We had just a half-day to cover /all/ special needs”, one newly-trained teacher recently regretfully told us.
In 2009, a government-commissioned report, The Rose Review, recommended that initial teacher training courses should contain a realistic amount of time on dyslexia/SpLD. The British Dyslexia Association are now campaigning hard to try to make this a reality, and have set up a
petition on the government website asking for a compulsory module on dyslexia. If this petition reaches 100,000 signatures this issue will then be debated in the House of Commons.Click here for more
