Testimonials

What our Customers Say

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First of all I would like to thank you for your PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT yesterday on oral language. The content of your session was fantastic. I only wish it went for longer. Your delivery of the content, I believe, is why our staff sought you out in the first place and now would like to work with you again.

Assistant Principal, Perth Catholic Primary School, Western Australia

Diana, I simply had to write to you to let you know how inspiring your 2 day PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT was for me.

Over the years I have developed a good understanding of each piece of the literacy puzzle but I never seemed able to grasp the ‘whole’ picture and suddenly it all came together for me last Thursday and Friday. It’s like you have helped me put the puzzle together and now I can manipulate all the pieces, then take them out, fit some together all the whist having the whole picture in my mind. I feel a little dismayed that it has taken me 10 years of my teaching career to get to this point, but I am extremely excited to say I finally get it! I understand the role of language and phonological awareness in developing literacy skills in children, but more importantly you have explained so well how these components work; when in a children's life they are most crucial to address and the logical progression of these skills. As well as the difference between the skills of blending and segmenting and how the ability to do one doesn't necessarily mean that the other has been mastered.

You gave me so many, what Oprah calls, Ah! moments over the two days. You have reignited my passion for teaching literacy. I cannot wait to use your strategies and activities with my students.

I have used your framework of the progression of phonological awareness skills and language based skills to draw up a matrix and connect them with the English Reading and Writing sub-strands and Year 1 Report Grade allocations (provided by the Education Department.) I am finding it helpful to see where I am heading and what needs to be covered in a more systematic approach.

Thank you again for two wonderful days.

Year 1 Teacher from Quinns Rocks Primary School, Western Australia

On behalf of the WA Education Support Principals and Administrators' Association I would like to take this opportunity to thank you. The visiting Principals found this to be a very valuable experience and wish me to convey their thanks. The presentation you provided gave them a better understanding of how to use your resources as well as providing them with more knowledge in relation to the building blocks required for speech and language acquisition. Importantly it included an application for students with disabilities.

WAESPAA Country Members' liaison, Western Australia

Thanks so much for your presentation yesterday. I have only had but very positive feedback from staff.

Deputy Principal, Metropolitan Primary School, Western Australia

I attended two PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT days held a couple of weeks ago on implementing a literacy programme in early years learning. I found those two days so inspiring and came back to my class with a renewed vision for how I should be approaching my programme. I have spent the last two weeks testing my students ... and I would now like to tally their results ready to hand over to the next year's teacher. Once again thanks for your wonderful resources and help.

Kindergarten Teacher from a CEO school In Perth Western Australia

I wanted to take this opportunity to give you some feedback. After K-1 teachers completed your Professional Development in March this year we have worked very hard implementing your program in our K-1 classes.  Can I just say that we are loving your programs. It is so fantastic to have a program that is so air tight and guides us each term so that we all know what everyone is doing. We have implemented both the literacy and language programs including a home based comprehension program this year and we are seeing FANTASTIC results from our children. I feel very confident that we have prepared them well for formal literacy learning in Year 1 and we are really excited to see how the year 1 teachers feel this year’s children are placed compared to other years. We also feel very confident that with your program we can meet the needs of the National curriculum next year. Keep up the great work and thank you!!!

Pre-Primary Teacher and Junior Primary coordinator from a Primary School in Perth, Western Australia

I attended two Professional Development  days held a couple of weeks ago on implementing a literacy programme in early years learning. I found those two days so inspiring and came back to my class with a renewed vision for how I should be approaching my programme. I have spent the last two weeks testing my students on 'Syllabification' and 'Rhyme Identification'. I would now like to tally their results ready to hand over to the Pre-Primary staff. Once again thanks for your wonderful resources and help.

Kindergarten Teacher from a CEO School in Perth, Western Australia

I am using lots of Diana's very helpful suggestions daily - with results!! Thank you!!

Freda

I just want to say that I have embraced your literacy programme with open arms and the results that I am getting are absolutely amazing!!!!!!! Thank you so much.

An Early Childhood Educator from Newman, rural Western Australia

I would firstly like to say how fantastic I found your course. It opened my eyes a great deal to exactly how to teach the skills to the best potential and also how to prioritise skills, where I think this year I have tried to cover too much scope and maybe extended them before covering the basics in enough detail – bring on next year for a new approach to the whole school year approach to your theories!

A Kindergarten Teacher from an independent school in Perth, Western Australia