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Course details
The content of this website is offered as a postgraduate subject
in the Faculty of Education at the University of Melbourne. The
subject is offered by SELAGE
(Studies in Exceptional Learning and Gifted Education) in the area
of Learning Disabilities: Literacy.
Objectives On completion of this subject
you should be able to
- identify the processes involved in fluent reading and use these
to describe reading disabilities
- identify the developmental trends to acquiring literacy knowledge
and use these to explain and diagnose reading difficulties and
to implement effective teaching
- identify the causes of different types of reading disability
(psycholinguistic, information processing, phonological, cognitive,
metacognitive) and the implications of these for diagnosis and
teaching
- evaluate procedures for diagnosing and reporting literacy difficulties,
implement a diagnostic program; describe, analyse and explain
reading disabilities, select the appropriate assessment procedures,
use dynamic assessment procedures, integrate diagnostic information
from a range of sources.
- develop integrated learning support programmes for students
who have reading disabilities that include teaching systematically
reading strategies at the pre-, while and post- reading phases,
orthographic and phonological knowledge and positive self efficacy
and attitudes to reading.
- identify the characteristics of successful literacy instructional
programs according to particular literacy learning disabilities,
evaluate the effectiveness of literacy education programs intended
for use with students who have learning difficulties in literacy
and
- develop and implement education programmes that are supported
by current research.
This subject encompasses the following generic skills: On completion
of this subject you should be able to
- analyse critically approaches to the assessment of reading disabilities,
procedures used to diagnose and remediate reading disabilities,
theories and explanations of reading disability.
- develop a problem solving approach to the diagnosis of specific
learning disabilities.
- develop skills in communicating the nature of particular cases
of reading disabilities to teachers, parents and students.
- use the model of literacy knowledge to plan a schedule for
implementing a literacy support program.
- work in a team with other professionals in analysing and reporting
reading disabilities.
- display positive attitudes to the diagnosis and remediation
of reading disabilities.
Course content
- The reading process: How fluent readers read
- How do readers learn to read?
- Explanations of reading difficulties
- A literacy diagnostic pathway
- Describing reading performance: Which test to use?
- Analysing reading performance
- Explaining reading performance
- Planning a reading programme
- Interactive reading of prose
- Teaching the oral language knowledge necessary to support reading
- Interactive reading of individual words
- Modifying instruction in the classroom
Staff
Dr John Munro
Associate Professor
Head
of Studies in Exceptional Learning and Gifted Education
Melbourne Graduate School of Education
Level 3 Room 3.41, 234 Queensberry Street
Phone 8344 0953
Fax 9347 2468
Email j.munro@unimelb.edu.au
Ms.
Brenda Dalheim
School Adviser (CEOM)/Placed Lecturer (Uni Melb),
Student
Services, Catholic Education Office Melbourne
Honorary
Fellow, University of Melbourne
Level 3, Room 3.26, 234 Queensberry St Carlton,
Phone: 8344 9539
Fax 9349
4923
Email: b.dalheim@unimelb.edu.au
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