Family Support

The NSW Centre for Effective Reading (NSW CER) supports students referred from eligible rural and remote primary schools across NSW.

These students have been identified by the school as having difficulty with reading, and have not responded as expected to school reading interventions.

Twice per year, a panel meets to review school referrals.

Should a school's referral be accepted, then NSW CER will collaborate with the partner school and the family to learn more about the student. This helps the NSW CER team understand the student's strengths and challenges.

Our team uses this information to help develop a plan for reading intervention.

What to expect:

Communication

Our caring staff will contact you to find out more information about your child. This may be by phone, email or by post. Sharing key information helps NSW CER tailor our assessments and the plan for reading intervention.

Let us know the best way to contact you!

Consent

We will seek your consent to assess your child, and for our team to access online platforms to support your child. We also ask for consent to publish photos and success stories but understand that not everyone is comfortable with this.

Travel

You may be asked if you are able to travel to a hub site for an assessment. This may be for up to 2 days. We appreciate that this may be difficult for some, so please let us know how we can support you. You may prefer an assessment done at your child's school using online facilities. We work closely with schools to support families and can discuss this with them.

Meetings

You will be invited to regular meetings to discuss your child's progress. These meetings are conducted online.

The first meeting may be during your child's assessment period. We will then also invite you to a planning meeting with your school and the NSW CER team.

Approximately every 10 weeks we meet again to share your child's progress. This is a lovely opportunity to hear the success and changes that are being observed and we value parent input.

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