Past events - Webinar

Numbers are Everywhere. Supporting children to develop number skills.

This webinar will inform you about how children acquire number skills and how, as a parent you can enrich their appreciation of numbers and their application.

Within this 1 hour session, we will discuss what causes anxiety and stress within dyslexic children, signs to look out for at different ages and what you can do to help. How to approach conversations and what you can do to support the building of resilience.

This presentation will outline the five most frequently asked questions from parents who want to support their children at home. The webinar will provide ideas and guidance as to how to support learners at home with their studies. Different types of technology and software that help learners who have dyslexia will be discussed.

Many people with dyslexia do not enjoy writing, so this webinar will explore how we can create stories both with and without words. We will explore different ways to organise our thoughts and look at how to make a picture board of ideas to help us tell vivid and exciting tales. This webinar is aimed at Secondary school children but anyone is welcome to attend.

In this presentation we will highlight some important factors that affect the learning of spellings and times tables helping parents who want to support their children at home. The focus will be on giving you lots of practical, useful and effective strategies which can make learning spellings and times tables, not only easier but hopefully fun too.

This session will provide ideas on helping your child to get back into classroom learning. It will look at some top tips to encourage learning, boosting learner confidence and what we can do at home to support our children to harness their dyslexia super-powers!

Based on my book for parents of the same title, this webinar takes a very practical and pragmatic look at how to support children at home on typical homework tasks.

We will look at some of the first steps in the process of finding out about difficulties and getting help so you can deal with them. Some strategies for working with professionals and building up a portfolio of evidence will be explained.

At Microsoft, our Mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. With more than 1 billion people in the world with disabilities, there is no limit to what people can achieve when technology reflects the diversity of all those who use it.