Litercacy Legends Podcast

In this Powerd Media & Print Radio Tasmania series, disabled storytellers find uplifting stories of Tasmanians working for improved literacy

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Episode 6: Skills for Life

Annalise Haigh drops into Hamlet Café for a mocha and a chat with their Training Manager Amy Lawler and employee Charles. She finds out how waiting tables and taking coffee orders has led Charles to his dream of one day learning to drive a car.

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Episode 5: Digital Literacy

Host Rosie Putland discovers the challenges students with low digital literacy face at school and university. Rosie and Darren Britt from ADCET demonstrate some of the incredible technology students are using to boost their learning.

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Episode 4: Leaps and Bounds

Hrisanthi Dokos meets Georgia Park and Tanya Mason to see how they taught students to read in just two 20 minute sessions per week.

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Episode 3: Screening for Success

Host Hrisanthi Dokos visits the Kindergarten class at Bowen Road Primary School in Tasmania to see how Bic the alien can help Melissa Lawrence and Jodi Upton spot language delays in their students.

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Episode 2: Rosie’s Reading

Episode host Honor Marino interviews Rick Marton and Ray Mostogl about their mission to bring Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Tasmania.

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Episode 1: Born to Sing

Host Kristy Stichter meets music therapist Alexandra Morse from Creative Therapies Tasmania to find out how important lullabies are for reading and writing later in life.

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