Hippocrates and Socrates X conference - September 2005

"Learning about learning difficulties"

Conference proceedings  click here

Presenter:

 Professor Max Coltheart

Title:

 Understanding reading and spelling difficulties
   

Presenter:

 Ruth Brunsdon

Title:

 Assessment and treatment of reading disorders: A cognitive neuropsychological perspective
 
 

Presenter:

 Assoc Professor Joanne Mulligan

Title:

 Understanding young children's difficulties in mathematics learning

Handout:

 Sample 'Pattern and Structure' Assessment (PASA) tasks

Article: 

 Taking a closer look at young students' images of area measurement
 

Presenter:

 Assoc Professor Jan P. Piek

Title:

 Developmental Coordination Disorder: Not just a movement problem
 
 

Presenter:

 Dr Roslyn Neilson

Title:

 Early speech difficulties and their relationship to literacy: What teachers might expect in the classroom, and how they might help
 
 

Presenter:

 Professor Barbara Dodd

Title:

 Language, learning and literacy: Teachers as agents of intervention
 
 

Presenter:

 Dr Danielle Tracey

Title:

 The nature and enhancement of academic self-concept for students with learning difficulties
 
 

Presenter:

 Professor Philip Hazell

Title:

 Fidgetty Phil
 
 

Presenter:

 Deborah Knight

Title:

Early intervention and identification of learning difficulties               

 
References
 
 

Presenter:

 Professor Margot Prior

Title:

 Closing summary