Salesian Institute Literacy for Learners with Special Learning Needs

by Admin · Published September 8, 2022 · Updated September 8, 2022

Learn to Live Literacy Classroom

The Salesian Institute Youth Projects Learn to Live School of Skills, introduced the Learn to Live Legacy Project into the school in late 2021. The Legacy Literacy Project aims to prioritise sensitivity to the relationships between literacy, and emotional and behavioural disorders prevalent in learners who are not proficient readers.

The purpose of the Literacy Project is to introduce a systematic synthetic phonics reading intervention methodology for implementation by all role players, to reduce the barriers to reading experienced by the learners. Many of the Learn to Live learners have not benefitted from formal reading instruction during their formative years of mainstream schooling, before being enrolled at the Learn to Live School.

The key objective of this programme was firstly to train staff to recognise and address the barriers to learning, ensuring that the staff implement appropriate reading intervention methodologies, and enable learners to become more confident readers and thereby increase their learning potential and success.

Noah Retired Teachers-Literacy Project

The scholastic reading assessments started in August 2021 and proved that learners enrolling at the school had very low reading scores. The staff embarked on their first training session in January 2022 with Roland Abrahams and Toni Sylvester, who are both Educational Psychologists and lecturers specialising in Education at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

The Legacy Literacy project is made possible through welcome funding received from Missioni Don Bosco (Turin), whilst retired teachers from NOAH Cape Town volunteer their services to assist learners with reading, an invaluable contribution.

For more information, please contact Frieda Pehlivan, Communications Manager, Salesian Institute Youth Projects.

Tel: 021-425 1450

www.salesianyouth.org