Steps – Helping learners

Identifying and catering for dyslexic learners – and others with processing difficulties – is a major challenge for schools and parents.

Despite average or above average intellectual ability, these learners often have a range of processing difficulties which affects their literacy development and sometimes prevents them from accessing the curriculum at their intellectual level.

Dyslexic people learn differently, not worse, than other learners and need to have specialist programmes to accommodate their learning styles.

Until now, the only effective specialist teaching courses have needed one-to-one teaching with a specialist teacher. This is because dyslexic learners need a very multi-sensory approach and need to progress at their own individual rate.

These courses have also been aimed at UK or American learners, with accompanying software in British or American accents and spellings.

NZ’s first specialist programme has been designed by NZers for NZers. Meeting the needs for dyslexic and non-dyslexic learners with literacy needs, the Steps software programme and workbook series, offers learners an individual learning programme with many opportunities for reinforcement of concepts.

School and parent feedback expresses the ease of using the programme and the flexibility to add additional words and voice recordings, quickly and easily.