Innovative Anglia Ruskin Knowledge transfer partnership wins a second award

The national UNICO Impact Awards recognise and celebrate the process of transferring knowledge and expertise from the research base of higher education and the public sector for the wider benefit of society and the economy.

Joint winner of the Public Policy and Service Impact Award, sponsored by Research Councils UK, was the groundbreaking Learning Needs Profiler (LNP) programme developed in Cambridge which helps teachers understand the specific learning needs of dyslexic children. The Learning Needs Profiler has been developed through close collaboration between Professor Eamon Strain, head of the Psychology Department at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge and Dr Daniel Sturdy, director of Sancton Wood School.. The learning needs software package the team have developed could revolutionise the way young people with reading difficulties are taught. And with conservative estimates suggesting that one in ten of the population has some form of dyslexia the potential for the product is vast.
A key role in developing the project has been played by Angela Barry, researcher at Anglia Ruskin University, who has been seconded to the project for two years to help to bring it to fruition. The LNP seeks to overcome the ‘one size fits all’ approach to the teaching of dyslexic pupils by more accurately identifying the strengths and weaknesses of individual children, making teaching easier and better directed.

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