Twilight Talks: Unlocking Digital Reading for Every Young Person with DAISY and Dolphin
- Online
- 13 May 2025 (16:00 - 17:00)
Digital Reading has a profound impact education and wellbeing.
While lots of children and young people can benefit from the flexibility that digital reading offers, it is particularly important for anyone who experiences barriers to reading text in a print-based format. This includes young people who are dyslexic, vision impaired, or have other educational needs including ADHD and autism.
This webinar focusses on the practical ways to enable young people with special educational needs to read and learn in a way that meets their individual needs. Richard Orme of the DAISY Consortium and Simon Kitchen of Dolphin Computer Access will explore:
• Research highlighting the benefits of digital reading for children and young people with SEND and learning differences
• What to read: a range of sources of digital content for reading for learning and leisure
• Ways to read: unlocking accessibility across a range of digital reading tools at school and home
You can read more about our Twilight Talks sessions on our dedicated page.
Online
Suitable for: A parent/carer, Administration Staff, Assistant Head Teacher, Consultant, Deputy Head Teacher, Early Years Practitioner, Inclusion Manager/Leader, Newly Qualified Teacher, Teaching Assisstant, SENCO, Student, Support staff, Teacher, Young person, Other
Meet your trainer
Richard Orme
When teaching in a college more than 35 years ago Richard met a blind student who needed to access textbooks and software used on his course. Thus began a thrilling and varied career in what we now refer to as accessibility. After holding senior positions in national and international non-profits, Richard is now Chief Executive of the DAISY Consortium, the global organization whose mission is to develop standards and solutions for accessible publishing and reading.
Meet your trainer
Simon Kitchen
Now Chief Marketing Officer at Dolphin Computer Access, Simon has enjoyed over 17 years in the assistive technology industry. During this time, Simon has helped to ensure that Dolphin products empower people with vision impairments and dyslexia to read and succeed.
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