The BIG 5 Learning difficulties

Next date: Monday, 24 March 2025 | 07:00 PM to 08:30 PM

Presented by Mark Le Messurier 2022 SA Senior Australian of the Year

Seminar 1: The BIG 5 Learning Difficulties: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia and ADHD

Understanding how these needs can be met for our children’s sake.

This presentation is in admiration of the children who set off to school intending to learn, to read, to write, to do maths, but falter because of an unexpected learning difficulty, or difficulties connected to ADHD (executive functioning).

Soon after starting, they realise that their learning, organisation, and concentration is not the same as the others. This wasn’t their dream, and a dreadful shame replaces the dream to be successful at school.

A few turn their shame inwards and stop trying. As the emotional ache grows some give up, become sad, lose friendships, and disengage. Others display anxiety. A few find this learning impasse so debilitating they become depressed. They contemplate the incomprehensible seeing this as a better option than dealing with their shame in front of peers every day. For those who prefer to act out their shame, the script plays out with surprising speed, volatile emotion, and errant behaviour. Not being able to crack ‘the spelling code’, ‘the number code’, ‘the writing code’ or ‘the remembering code’, ‘the being ready and organised code’ hurts deeply as they continue to stumble.

Let’s unpack the BIG 5 Learning Difficulties: Dyslexia, Dysgraphia, Dyscalculia, Dyspraxia and ADHD (executive functioning) to understand how these needs can be met, and how we can keep our kids thriving.

Monday 24 March 2025, 7 - 8.30pm

Fullarton Park Community Centre, 411 Fullarton Road, Fullarton

Cost: FREE Bookings essential.

For more information contact the Centre on 8372 5180 or email fpcc@unley.sa.gov.au

Each of these Seminars are taken directly from Mark’s newest book, ‘Guiding Kids Through the Tough Moments' (2023). 

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Fullarton Park Community Centre, 411 Fullarton Road, Fullarton, 5063, View Map