Publications

Contents: Geoff Ongley: From the President Hema Desai: In this issue of the Bulletin Sarah Mitchell: When Phonics Is Not Enough: Supporting Students to Master English Orthography Jessica Sarmento: Strengthening the Relationship Between Teaching Reading and Student Wellbeing in Secondary Schools Jactina Conway: From Classroom Teacher to LDA Consultant Hema Desai: Celebrating 60 Years of Learning Difficulties Australia Dr Shaun Ziegenfusz: Developmental Language Disorder in the Classroom: What Every Teacher Needs to Know (and Do) Dr Bec Marland: Dyslexia in Primary and Secondary Schools Reflections on Research into Policy and Practice in Victorian Government Schools

Contents: Geoff Ongley: From the President Laura Glisson: In this issue of the Bulletin Anna Taylor, Mark E. Boyes, Sharon Smart, Robyn Wheldall, Mary Claessen, and Suze Leitão: Collaboration between SLP and teachers – One primary school's journey Emily Jackson, Elizabeth Hill, Katheryn Jones, Suze Leitão, Kate Tonta, Bronwyn Myers, Anna Sowerbutts, Julie Townsend, Mandy Nayton, Jenny Baker, Phoenix Carpenter, Melanie Cribb, Natalee Blakemore, Alison Hyde, Felicity Komorowski, Alida Warman, Katherine Lisle-Williams, Alissa Wills, Ewan Lisle-Williams and Max Willis Orla Heffernan, and Mark Boyes: Working towards better mental health for students with language difficulties: Co-designing a new program with the community Alejandra Nucette, Britta Biedermann, Takeshi Hamamura and Suze Leitão: Can learning a new language help you get better at maths? Jamie Clark: Teaching One-Pagers Volume 2 Making Research Work for Busy Teachers Dr Emily Jackson: Hear from the 2024 AJLD Early Career Researcher Award Recipient Book Review Nath Owen: Teaching One Pagers: Evidence-informed summaries for busy educational professionals by Jamie Clark From the Archives Timothy Shanahan: Decodable readers in the context of teaching 'Set for Variability' skills

This issue includes an AGM roundup, articles on maths and dyscalculia, stories from Consultants and past award recipients, and a selection of articles "from the archives".

This edition includes 13 fantastic articles written by classroom teachers, school leaders, researchers and speech pathologists. A wide range of topics are covered from writing assessment and intervention, to read-alouds and oral language, mathematics in the early years, supporting ADHD in the classroom, and Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) for literacy. There is sure to be something for all of our readers!

This issue of the Bulletin on Writing follows our recent "Think it, Say it, Write it: The Fundamentals of Written Expression" course. The issue covers topics around writing, including ideas presented in the books "The Not So Simple View of Writing" (Berninger et all, 2022) and "The Writing Rope" (Sedita, 2019).

In this issue of the Bulletin we review the AGM and RTI Conference and are introduced to Geoff Ongley, the new President of LDA. We also cover mathematics intervention, adjustments and the power of diagnostic assessments for maths.

This edition focuses specifically on the why and what of best practice in oral storytelling instruction, language difficulties students experience, as well as considerations and recommendations for small group intervention.

This issue focuses specifically on the common reading difficulties students experience, as well as considerations and recommendations for small group intervention in the primary and secondary context, in both literacy and numeracy.

This issue of the Bulletin features articles on Writing and Handwriting. It also contains information on the 2022 AGM and a review of the recent Linnea Ehri events.