SOUNDS-WRITE
Training for education professionals
By accredited trainers, Maureen McDaniell & Helen Hampton
SOUND LITERACY
SoundLiteracy has trained over 1,500 teachers and education assistants, speech therapists and tutors across Australia, Singapore and New Zealand in the Sounds-Write method - a systematic, evidence based, explicit phonics programme used in schools worldwide. Whether you are building literacy skills in the classroom or supporting individuals who need extra help, our courses give you the knowledge, skills and confidence to teach reading and spelling explicitly and effectively.
Sounds-Write - is endorsed by government education departments.
The Federal Government and all states have acknowledged that explicit phonics literacy training for education and speech professionals has been recocognised as THE way to teach reading. Sounds-Write is the LEADING phonics programsand is specifically endorsed by the Department of Education in Western Australia and NSW. The WA Department reviewed this high-quality structured synthetic phonics program which has been quality-assured and formally endorsed. This process examined all aspects of the program with a clear criterion, examining professional learning, scope and sequences, lesson design, resources, assessment and types of instruction.
MAUREEN McDANIELL B.Ed.
Maureen is a registered teacher who was concerned at the declining literacy standards in schools. In 2011 she decided to specialise in teaching foundation literacy with an intervention program that would provide primary school students with their best prospects for success. The program is Sounds-Write, which had been created as a mainstream tool for whole classroom teaching but worked seamlessly as an intervention method.
As a graduate from the first Sounds-Write training with John Walker in Western Australia in 2013 Maureen rapidly found she was in demand and now, online training has increased that demand.
As an experienced practitioner and trainer, Maureen brings to her Sounds-Write training a practical, in-depth understanding of the challenges facing teachers and parents in delivering effective literacy programs in schools and at home.
CONTACT MAUREEN
0418 195 926
HELEN HAMPTON
Helen is a Specialist literacy tutor and Sounds-Write trainer. Her interest in literacy and linguistic phonics stemmed from working with her severely dyslexic daughter fifteen years ago.
In 2011, realising the lack of local specialist literacy support for families in similar circumstances, she set up a tutoring service to support primary and secondary students struggling to acquire literacy skills. Since completing her training with John Walker in Perth 2013, she has been using Sounds-Write in her practice to successfully tutor individual students on a weekly basis.
Based in Margaret River, Helen delivers Sounds-Write courses across the South West region of Western Australia and other remote regional areas. She also provides post-training coaching to schools and other education professionals.
CONTACT HELEN
0428 006 833
