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answer text: The Department for Education has funded a number of programmes to promote literacy for children and young people with a learning difficulty or disability. Grant funding was provided to the Dyslexia Specific Learning Difficulties (SpLD) Trust in 2011-13 to provide advice and information to schools, parents and young people on dyslexia and literacy. In 2013-15 the Trust is also funded through a contract to support the Government's special educational needs (SEN) reforms for children and young people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties, and to provide information on training and effective approaches to identifying and supporting dyslexic pupils. Funding was provided to Dyslexia Action and the Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) in 2011-13 to develop the ‘load2learn’ programme which has made more than 2,000 core texts available in flexible digital format to pupils across the country. Funding was also provided to the National Deaf Children's Society in 2011-13 to support their work in making schools more deaf-friendly, including guidance on teaching phonics to children with a hearing impairment. From September 2011 to October 2013 the Department has provided match-funding to all state-funded primary schools in England with key stage 1 pupils so that they can purchase effective systematic synthetic phonics products and training to support their teaching of early reading. From January 2013 the Department is also providing a literacy and numeracy catch-up premium to secondary schools, including special schools, for year 7 pupils who have not achieved level 4 at key stage 2 in reading and/or mathematics. Each of these programmes has offered support to schools across the country. It is up to individual schools to decide how to use their resources to support their teaching because schools are best placed to recognise the learning needs of their pupils, and to decide what support each child requires. In addition, the Government is fully funding basic English and…
answer given date: 2013-10-31+00:00
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