Have you seen ‘The Writing Framework’ (2025) as published this week? Politics aside, from an SpLD assessment point of view, it is good to see that alongside phonics, and due to the complex nature of our writing system “this can be supported if pupils know letter pattern conventions (orthography), the units of meaning in words (morphology)

We in the UK are not the only ones moving forward with dyscalculia. The European Dyslexia Association, is not only going to change its name to include dyscalculia, but it has produced a European working definition for dyscalculia (without drawing a distinction between dyscalculia and other specific maths learning difficulties) (Karagiannakis, G., Noel, M, and

What a fantastic 3 days at the European Dyslexia Association conference in Athens! So many things to think about.  Here’s part 1 of my musings: The Delphi definition of dyslexia, gives us Table 4: “a risk and probabilities assessment practice framework” and this framework came up many times over the three days, in various different ways. Here is