Media & Interviews

It was an absolute honour to engage in a conversation with Heidi about her Chapter, Show Me The Evidence in Education. Heidi generously shared her Education journey, which commenced as a parent and morphed into parent advocacy and much more. Heidi generously shared the following points: - Her children's diagnoses and their journey from assessments to understanding what this meant for them. - The grief that results from the diagnoses. - The books that were pivotal in Heidi's journey of understanding dyslexia and the explicit teaching her children would benefit from. - The importance of the allied health professionals (Psychologists and Speech Pathologists) involved in the wrap-around support. - Her role as an activist, the founder of Dyslexia Victoria Support Group (a Facebook group with 10,300 members) and the Vice President of SPELD Victoria. Heidi can be contacted via: - https://www.heidigregoryparentadvocacy.com/; dvsaustralia@gmail.com - https://speldvic.org.au/; https://speldvic.org.au/contact/ ; https://www.facebook.com/groups/dyslexiavictoriasupport/ - An upcoming Student Support Binders workshop by Heidi - https://speldvictoriainc.my.salesforce-sites.com/AAkPay__checkoutM?cmid=701Mp00000G1t6TIAR&cacheControl=20240618231727003&campaignType=Information+sessions An enormous thanks to Heidi for spending the time, energy, and effort in sharing this Chapter. Please share it with others that may resonate with it. It will be available on @humanchapters YouTube, Podcast, and Facebook group.

October is Dyslexia Awareness month and on Thursday 27th October we were very fortunate to have Heidi Gregory answer our questions at our Read Ballarat Q&A event. Heidi Gregory is an advocate for social justice and evidence-based literacy instruction and intervention for children with dyslexia. She is the founder of Dyslexia Victoria Support. In 2018 Dyslexia Victoria Support was awarded the Victorian Premier’s Volunteer Champions Award for Teamwork. Described as the ‘heart and soul’ of Victoria’s Dyslexia Community, the DVS Administration Team work around the clock to give online support and advice to thousands of people on screening, assessments, assistive technologies, and targeted interventions. The team displays initiative, courage and open mindedness, and have developed essential resources, fostered local support groups, convened events and advocated for people with dyslexia. Heidi has extensive experience with advocacy work including; • Founded a Victorian parent support group that provides evidence-based information, support, networking, and friendship to other families of children with dyslexia – Dyslexia • Volunteer parent advocate for kids with reading and spelling difficulties • Assists parents to seek and find quality evidence-based intervention and accommodations for children • Advocates with politicians, local/state & federal and engages with educational groups, policy makers and allied health professionals • Community champion for dyslexia awareness and strong proponent of evidence-aligned interventions in schools • Ability to coordinate volunteer contributions for social media platforms, websites, petitions, events, workshops, venues, social media groups, tutoring • Coordinated successful marketing campaigns and established media relationships • Working briefly, as a library staff member in 3 schools, Bairnsdale Technical School; Mildura Tafe and Ivanhoe Grammar School. She also volunteered at her local school library when her children were little Most recently Heidi has been instrumental in the push for the mandated Phonics Screening Test.