Dr Steve Heath will present and talk about managing DYSLEXIA

Steve is a clinical and research psychologist and also a trained teacher. She has a special interest in disorders of language and literacy and particularly phonological processing. She works clinically with primary school aged children and adults. At the UWA Child Study Centre Learning Clinic Steve works in the multi-disciplinary team with students whose specific learning disabilities interfere with their academic achievement and undermine their developing sense of well being.

Steve’s research has resulted in a cost-effective preschool screening method that will identify children at risk for reading problems and which has been tested in schools in a project funded by the Department of Education and Training (DET).  She is also a member of the Child Study Centre team that holds an ARC-Linkage grant with DET to look at ways of training parents to support their preschool child’s early literacy development through play-based activities.