03/11/2026
Over two hundred educators left our conference on Saturday better equipped to close the dyslexia attainment gap in Scotland's schools.
Inputs from young learners, dyslexia experts and parents delivered key messages and techniques teachers can put into practice in classrooms immedicately.
Thank you to everyone who made the day a success:
🧑‍🏫 our Young Ambassador Ruth for opening the event with her personal perspective on life as a dyslexic young person in Scotland
🧑‍🏫 Louise Selby Dyslexia for an engaging and informative keynote on morphology as the vital bridge to learn spelling
🧑‍🏫 Daniel Robinson and Paul McNeill for sharing their perspective as fathers raising dyslexic daughters
🧑‍🏫 Grammarsaurus, Blair Drummond Smiddy and Cormack Consultancy Group for sponsoring the event
🧑‍🏫 to our volunteers for making the day run like clockwork
🧑‍🏫 to our exhibitors, The Donaldson Trust, Scottish Book Trust, SEN Books, The Wee Coaching Company , CALL Scotland, Barrington Stoke, Everway, Everybody Reads, Fianais, Hachette Books, Leckie and Collins, Lex The Saurus, Neurodapt, Open Genius, Readingwise and Successful Learning
🧑‍🏫 to our venue Conferences - Technology & Innovation Centre, University of Strathclyde
🧑‍🏫 to all of our workshop hosts, and, most importantly, to the delegates who committed to a day's professional learning in pursuit of a dyslexia-friendly Scotland.
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