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Twilight Talks: Unlocking Digital Reading for Every Young Person

  • Webcasts
  • 15 May 2025
Twilight Talks
Dyslexia

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 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.

Suitable for: A parent/carer, Administration Staff, Assistant Head Teacher, Consultant, Deputy Head Teacher, Early Years Practitioner, Educational Psychologist, Governor, Head Teacher, Inclusion Manager/Leader, Newly Qualified Teacher, SENCO, Senior Leader, Student, Support staff, Teacher, Tutor, Young person, Other

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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.

Richard Orme, CEO of DAISY Consortium

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. 

Simon KItchen, Chief Marketing Officer, Dolphin Computer Access

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