Dyslexia Support from the Oxfordshire School Inclusion Team (OXSIT)

The Oxfordshire School Inclusion Team supports schools in their work with vulnerable groups and pupils with special educational needs.  We offer a range of support around dyslexia and other literacy difficulties, including:

• The Oxfordshire Literacy Difficulties Policy and Advice, including the Literacy Asssessment Pack (LAPack),
• Training for staff on the nature of dyslexia and other literacy difficulties,
• Training to develop inclusive teaching to be a dyslexia friendly school,
• Support for the development of intervention,
• Support for development of diagnostic assessment in order to better understand how to meet the needs of individual pupils,
• Support to ensure your access arrangements and exam concessions are effective and meeting JCQ guidelines
• We can provide qualified Level 7 assessors to conduct your assessments to support exam concessions for public examinations and tests.

We also offer a number of training courses for teachers and teaching assistants(TAs), including:

• SpLD for Teachers,
• Dyslexia for TAs,
• Fischer Family Trust Reading Programme
• Write Away Together
• Hi Five

For teachers and TAs wanting to specialise further in literacy difficulties, we teach on the Level 7 Oxford Brookes course 'Working with children and young people with literacy difficulties'.

 This service is bought in by schools, either over the academic year, or on a pay as you go basis.  See the OXSIT website  www.oxsit.org.uk or contact the team at schoolimprovement@oxfordshire.gov.uk  for further details.