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The Journal: Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties
The LDA Bulletin
The Learning Difficulties Australia Bulletin is a magazine-style publication in the area of learning difficulties for members of LDA. This publication contains a variety of information including short articles, reports, LDA updates, and book reviews. It aims to provide a forum in which researchers can disseminate accessible information to a wide audience of educational professionals, and to provide a venue where teachers and clinicians at the chalkface can report on the implementation of evidence-based teaching practices.
Dr Roslyn Neilson is the current editor of the LDA Bulletin. Ros has a wealth of experience and knowledge to contribute to the LDA Bulletin, with a background in both speech pathology and psychology, and a wide knowledge of the literature relating to language development, literacy and learning difficulties. She had been on the editorial team from 2016, and she took on the Editor role from Issue 1 of 2020. The Bulletin co-editors were Dr Molly de Lemos and Professor Tom Nicholson for the three 2020 issues, and 2021 sees the welcome addition of Dr Sally Robinson-Kooi and Lyn Stone to the team.
The Bulletin editorial team welcomes contributions from members of LDA for inclusion in the Bulletin, as well as comments, suggestions and ideas as to what they would like to see published. Feel free to contact the team directly: bulletin.editor@ldaustralia.org .
The Bulletin is published three times a year.
NOTE: LDA Members can access complete back issues of the Bulletin in the Members Only Section.
Volume 51, No 1, April 2021
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Council Notes
LDA Award Presentation Speeches
Special issue: Comprehension
Book reviews
Consultant Notes
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Volume 52, No 3, December 2020
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Contents Council Notes Lorraine Hammond: From the President Michael Roberts: From the General Manager Ann Ryan: Tribute to Elaine McLeish Council News Special issue: Thinking about Learning Roslyn Neilson: In this issue of the Bulletin. Ollie Lovell: Cognitive Load Theory in action. Kevin Wheldall & Robyn Wheldall: More WARs: The development of the WARL and the WARN. Book reviews Roslyn Neilson: How we learn: The new science of education and the brain, by Stanislas Dehaene. Consultant Notes Olivia Connelly: Consultant Notes.
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Volume 52, No 2, September 2020
Volume 52, No 1, 2020
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Volume 51, Nos 2 and 3, Summer 2019
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Contents
Lorraine Hammond, From the President Welcome to Michael Roberts and In This Bulletin Roslyn Neilson, An interview with David Kilpatrick Award Presentations following the AGM Jennifer Buckingham, The mission to improve reading instruction; How can we achieve success?: Steven Capp, How one school made the transition to evidence-based practice Jan Roberts, On being a Consultant Member of LDA and introduce the Year 1 Phonics Check: An update Stephen Parker, Synthetic Phonics: What it is and what it is not. Ros Neilson, The Phonemic Awareness versus Phonics Debate: Avoiding the Friendly Fire Steve Dykstra, In Defence of Truth: A reply to 57 Reading Voices on the Issue of Dyslexia LDA Awards Peter Westwood, What’s in a name? |
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- From the President - Lorraine Hammond
- Council News
- Cover Story: Introduction to the special issue on writing - Tom Nicholson
- Are we teaching our students to write? - Peter Westwood
- Effective practices for teaching students who have difficulty with writing - Amber Ray & Steve Graham
- How being a poor speller can seriously limit your talent as a writer - Vincent Connelly, Lynsey O'Rourke, & Emma Summer
- Spelling: Enabler or disabler? - Ros Neilson
- Brain research shows why handwriting should be taught in the computer age - Karin James & Virginia Berninger
- Yes, spelling should be taught - Sue Dymock
- Book Review: Essentials of assessing, preventing, and overcoming reading difficulties by David Kilpatrick, reviewed by Emma Nahna
- Book Review: Equipped for Reading Success by David Kilpatrick, reviwed by Kate Munro & Ann Ryan
- Book Review: Writing for impact: Teaching students how to write with a plan and spell well by Tom Nicholson & Sue Dymock, reviewed by Jan Roberts
- Book Review: Writing for impact: Teaching students how to write with a plan and spell well by Tom Nicholson & Sue Dymock, reviewed by Nathaniel Swain
- Consultant Notes - Ann Ryan
Volume 50, No 3, Spring 2018
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- From the President - Lorraine Hammond
- Council notes - Wendy Moore
- Update on LDA Publications - Molly de Lemos
AUSPELD and LDA - Robyn Wheldall
- Why are children not getting the systematic explicit phonic they need? - Alison Clarke
- Cover Story: From the rock comes the sculpture - Ray Boyd
- Individualising the teaching and spelling: reflections from the classroom - Fay Tran
- Is decoding about word indentification or about making meaning from text? - Alison Clarke
- The 'Phonics Debate': a lesson in irony - Monique Nowers
- Education reporting in Australia - Greg Ashman
- Think on This - Kirsten Duncombe
- An open letter to student teachers - Pamela Snow
- Pamela Snow reflects on The Reading League Conference, Syracuse, October 2018 - Pamela Snow
- Book Review: Learning disorders: A response to intervention perspective - Peter Westwood, reviewed by Wendy Moore
- A Country Practice - meeting Kate Munro in rural Mudgee - Ann Ryan
- Consultant Notes - Ann Ryan
Volume 50, No 2, Winter 2018
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- From the President - Anne Castle
- Council notes
- Can we teach Daniel to spell? - Jennifer Baker
- Cover Story - Spelling: a retrospective look at past research and practices - Peter Westwood
- Activities for Practising Spelling - Toxic to Helpful - Lyn Stone
- Spelling bees: a tool for improving literacy? - Nathaniel Swain
- Spelling Fact Sheet
- Ideology is dooming thousands of children to illiteracy - Jo Rogers
- Consultants' Report - Ann Ryan
Volume 50, No 1, Autumn 2018
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- From the President - Anne Castles
- Council notes
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and Executive Functioning Skills
- Cover Story - Autism From Mind Blindness to Contect Blindness - Peter Vermeulen
- What can teachers do: the perspective of a person with autism - Jeanette Purkis with David Wilkins
- What can teachers do: a parent's perspective - David Wilkins with Josie Santomauro
- The emergent literacy skills of preschoolers on the autism spectrum
- How reliable are the early signs of autism?
- Chris Davidson remembered - Diane Barwood and Dick Weigal
- Consultants' Report - Ann Ryan
- Upcoming Professional Learning
Volume 49, No 3, Summer 2017
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- From the President - Anne Castles
- LDA Award Winners for 2017
- Cover story: Leading by doing: Why the evidence is not enough - Chris Eveans
- Achieving whole-school support for students with learning difficulties - Robyn Wheldall
- Response to Intervention: The What, the How and the Why - Lyn Franklin
- A phonics check of another kind - Pamela Snow
- Book Review: Making sense on treatment choices - Alison Clarke
- Review of Professional Development Session: Teaching Morphology - Dr Lorraine Hammond
- Morphological Awareness: One piece of the literacy pie - International Dyslexia Association
- Review of literacy resource: The Huntsman's Lodge literacy series - Jan Roberts
- Specialist Teacher Consultants - Ann Ryan
Past issues (summaries)
Volume 45, No 3, November 2013
Volume 45, No 2, September 2013
Volume 44, No1/2 November 2012
Volume 43, No 2, December 2011
Volume 42, No 3/4, November 2010
Volume 42, No 2, July 2010
Volume 42, No 1, March 2010
Volume 41, No 3, September/December 2009
Volume 41, No 2, June 2009
Volume 41, No 1, March 2009
Volume 40, Nos 3 and 4, September/December 2008
Volume 40, No 2, June 2008
Volume 40, No 1, March 2008
Volume 39, No 4, December 2007
Volume 39, Nos 2 & 3, June/September 2007
Volume 39, No 1, May 2007
Volume 38, No 4, December 2006
Volume 38, No 3, October 2006
Volume 38, No 2, July 2006
Volume 38, No 1, April 2006
Volume 37, No 4, December 2005
Volume 37, No 3, October 2005
Volume 37, No 2, August 2005
Volume 37, No 1, March 2005
Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties
Journal editor: Dr Tanya Serry
LDA Journal of Learning Difficulties
LDA is delighted to announce the recent appointment of Dr Tanya Serry, senior lecturer at La Trobe University, as Editor of LDA’s Journal of Learning Difficulties. Tanya’s research and teaching focuses on the literacy, language and learning difficulties among students from the early years through to tertiary students, as well as those experiencing social disadvantage, centering on how to facilitate greater collaboration between educators, parents, speech pathologists and psychologists. Dr Serry’s expertise in the area of learning difficulties is well aligned with the vision of LDA and the Journal.
Members of LDA have free access to previous, current and upcoming issues and articles of the Journal, as well as receiving a print copy of each issue in the mail.
From 2008, the LDA journal, the Australian Journal of Learning Disabilities, has been renamed the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, and is published by Taylor and Francis, international journal publishers. The first issue under the new name is Volume 13, No 1, which was released in June 2008. There are two issues of the Journal each year.
For members of LDA, the membership fee includes a subscription to the Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties.
For non-members of LDA, subscriptions to the Journal are available through Taylor and Francis. Institutional rates include print and online access or online access only. Personal rates include print only.
All enquiries regarding subscriptions should be addressed to:
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Email: enquiries@tantif.com.au
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For further information on online subscriptions and instructions for submissions to the Journal, go to http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rald20&page=instructions#.U-1WoICSxWY
NOTE: LDA members can access complete back issues of the LDA Journal from 1997 and pre-publication articles from the Members Only Section.
Non-members of LDA can access the listing of the contents of current and back issues of the Journal as well as the listing of the latest articles that will be included in upcoming issues of the Journal, at https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rald20
The listing of the Contents of the current issue and back issues provided below includes a link to the abstracts of each article on the Journal website.
Latest articles now available on the Taylor and Francis website.
Article
Sally Robinson-Kooi & Lorraine S Hammond
Published online: 22 Apr 2020 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2020.1752747
Article
Australian preservice teachers and early reading instruction
Linda Meeks & Jennifer Stephenson
Published online: 12 Apr 2020 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2020.1743730
Article
Educators’ perceptions of the impact of reading difficulties for young people
Mary Claessen, Peta Dzidic, Mark Boyes, Nicholas Badcock, Mandy Nayton & Suze Leitao
Published online: 04 Mar 2020 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2020.1734952
Article
Charlotte W. Greenway & Alison Rees Edwards
Published online: 03 Jan 2020 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2019.1709875
Review
Rita Signor, Mary Claessen & Suze Leitão
Published online: 03 Jan 2020 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2019.1709216
Volume 24, No 2, 2019
CONTENTS
Article
Preventing a summer slide in reading – the effects of a summer school
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19404158.2019.1635499
Article
Kevin Wheldall, Nicola Bell, Robyn Wheldall, Alison Madelaine & Meree Reynolds
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19404158.2019.1635500
Article
Longitudinal reading outcomes in response to a book-based, whole class intervention for students from diverse cultural, linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds
Maria Lathouras, Marleen F. Westerveld & David Trembath
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19404158.2019.1640755
Review
Design and development of a Malay word recognition intervention program for children with dyslexia
Lay Wah Lee
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19404158.2019.1661261
Volume 24, No 1, 2019
CONTENTS
Article
Laura Glisson, Suze Leitão & Mary Claessen
Review
Becoming numerate: enduring theories, recent research, and current issues
Eminent Researcher Award of Learning Difficulties Australia, 2018
Article
Children’s reading difficulties, language, and reflections on the simple view of reading
Eminent Researcher Award of Learning Difficulties Australia, 2019
Review
William E. Tunmer & Wesley A. Hoover
Article
Evaluation of a tangible mobile application for students with specific learning disabilities
Elif Polat, K. Cagiltay, C. Aykut & N. Karasu
Past issues
Volume 16, Issue 2, October 2011
Volume 11, Issue 3, 2006
Proceedings of the Annual Conference of Learning Difficulties Australia 2006
Volume 10, Issues 3 & 4, 2005: Special Issue – Research of Relevance to the Nelson Report
Other Publications
Contents
Lorraine Hammond, From the President
Welcome to Michael Roberts
In this Bulletin
Roslyn Neilson, An interview with David Kilpatrick
Award Presentations following the AGM
Jennifer Buckingham, The mission to improve reading instruction; How can we achieve success?:
Steven Capp, How one school made the transition to evidence-based practice
Jan Roberts, On being a Consultant Member of LDA
Stephen Parker, Synthetic Phonics: What it is and what it is not.
Ros Neilson, The Phonemic Awareness versus Phonics Debate: Avoiding the Friendly Fire
Steve Dykstra, In Defence of Truth: A reply to 57 Reading Voices on the Issue of Dyslexia
LDA Awards
Peter Westwood, What’s in a name?
Anne Pringle and Mim Davidson, Vale Anne Bishop
Latest articles now available on the Taylor and Francis website athttps://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rald20.
Article
Sally Robinson-KooiLorraine S Hammond
Published online: 22 Apr 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2020.1752747
Article
Australian preservice teachers and early reading instruction
Linda MeeksJennifer Stephenson
Published online: 12 Apr 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2020.1743730
Article
Educators’ perceptions of the impact of reading difficulties for young people
Mary Claessen, Peta Dzidic, Mark Boyes, Nicholas Badcock, Mandy Nayton & Suze Leitao
Published online: 04 Mar 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2020.1734952
Article
Charlotte W. Greenway & Alison Rees Edwards
Published online: 03 Jan 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2019.1709875
Review
Rita Signor, Mary Claessen & Suze Leitão
Published online: 03 Jan 2020
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19404158.2019.1709216
Latest issue: Volume 24, No 2, 2019
CONTENTS
Article
Preventing a summer slide in reading – the effects of a summer school
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19404158.2019.1635499
Article
Kevin Wheldall, Nicola Bell, Robyn Wheldall, Alison Madelaine & Meree Reynolds
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19404158.2019.1635500
Article
Longitudinal reading outcomes in response to a book-based, whole class intervention for students from diverse cultural, linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds
Maria Lathouras, Marleen F. Westerveld & David Trembath
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19404158.2019.1640755
Review
Design and development of a Malay word recognition intervention program for children with dyslexia
Lay Wah Lee
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19404158.2019.1661261
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