Ben Evans, one of the centre's users

Centre's special help for children with Dyslexia

Schools in South Staffordshire are to benefit from a new state of the art dedicated resource for children with Dyslexia.

The South Staffordshire Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia) Centre is based at Westfield Primary School, Ounsdale Road, Wombourne has been officially opened.

The new facility will serve all South Staffordshire schools in Kinver, Bobbington, Trysull, Wombourne, Castlecroft, Perton, Codsall and Bilbrook.

It is led by teacher-in-charge, Amanda Bamford and teaching assistant Debbie Orton provides tuition for pupils and advice for schools in a caring and supportive environment.  Among, other advantages, the Centre helps children with learning difficulties such as dyslexia to learn and improve in such areas as reading, writing, spelling and self esteem. 

Children attend the Centre for a weekly afternoon or morning session of intensive teaching, to support the work already being done in their schools.  

Children who have recently started at the Centre are already benefiting from the intensive support, which is being given to them in small groups of up to six children.

The new classroom offers an exciting and stimulating environment where the approach to learning is through games and activities, which encourage children to use all their senses.  Children's work programmes are tailored to individual needs, with the Centre liaising closely with schools and parents to ensure that these are continued to be supported away from the Centre.

The new initiative has been financed by Staffordshire County Council's Special Educational Needs Support Service (SENSS).  The Centre joins other Dyslexia Centres across the County, of which there are now eight.    The Centres contribute to Staffordshire's campaign to promote the dyslexia friendly initiative of which it holds Dyslexia Friendly Status, an accreditation from the British Dyslexia Association.

Robert Simpson, the County Council's Leader for Children and Lifelong Learning said: "I am delighted at the opening of this new centre.  We look forward to the pupils really developing both personally and educationally from the care, support and tuition that they will receive here.  Because every child is different, these centres aim to develop fully inclusive working links for pupils with dyslexia within Staffordshire's primary schools."

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