Defeat Dyslexia!

Author: Holly Swinton
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781530552207
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Jargon-free and easy to read, Defeat Dyslexia! is the practical guide for busy parents and carers. Find out with what dyslexia really means for your child's reading, spelling, maths, and other areas of learning, including music, languages, and sport. Then discover straightforward, positive ways to help your dyslexic child to excel, in school and in life. Using Defeat Dyslexia!, you'll gather facts, advice, and inspiration from a dyslexia expert who is also proudly dyslexic. With this book, you can: Spot Dyslexia Identify signs of possible dyslexia, including hidden clues. Find out about overlapping conditions, like dyscalculia, dyspraxia, ADHD, and autism. Understand Dyslexia Get to grips with the strengths and weaknesses of dyslexia. Make the diagnosis process stress-free. Defeat Dyslexia! Learn the quick and easy 'first steps' for supporting your child. Create a long-term plan of action for learning success. It's time to defeat the demons of dyslexia - and embrace the best of what it means to be dyslexic.

The Dyslexia Checklist

Author: Sandra F. Rief
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047042981X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
Essential advice and resources for helping kids with dyslexia The Dyslexia Checklist is a valuable guide for parents and teachers that can help them better understand children and teenagers with dyslexia and other reading- and language-based disabilities. The book relays the most current research available and is filled with practical strategies, supports, and interventions. Using these tools teachers and parents can accommodate the needs and strengthen the skills of students with reading and writing disabilities across all age levels. The book is presented in a simple, concise, easy-to-read checklist format and is filled with useful advice and information on a wide range of topics. Explains what we now know about dyslexia from decades of research Contains games to strengthen a child's literacy and language skills Provides important information for hooking in reluctant and struggling readers Offers suggestions for enhancing skills in vocabulary, comprehension, composition and written expression, spelling, math, and more The book also provides information on the educational rights of students with dyslexia.

The Dyslexia Checklist

Author: Sandra F. Rief
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 047054984X
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 343

The Human Side of Dyslexia

Author: Shirley Kurnoff
Publisher: London Universal Publishing
ISBN: 0970355726
Category : Dyslexia
Languages : en
Pages : 353

Book Description
This text is an inside look at dyslexia - the challenges, emotions and rewards - from childhood through to the college experience. It contains 142 interviews with parents, siblings and college students. It aims to help parents see how to tap the wonderful strengths of their children. It offers pragmatic steps for problem solving at each section's end. It also has a discussion of how siblings feel. While the title implies a book on dyslexia, its messages also work for parents of children with any kind of learning disability.

Assessment of Learners with Dyslexic-Type Difficulties

Author: Sylvia Phillips
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446295974
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 431

Book Description
This comprehensive guide enables teachers to understand a range of approaches to the assessment of children with dyslexic-type difficulties. Linking theory, research and practice, practitioners will gain critical knowledge of procedures to analyse, interpret and use in appropriate assessments which will facilitate setting targets for teaching. The book covers: - how to use both informal and formal assessment procedures - frameworks for evaluating published and teacher-made assessments - the professional development needs of any teacher involved in assessment Ideal for those training to be specialist teachers of learners with dyslexia, this text is equally useful to all teachers and SENCOS (Special Educational Needs Co-ordinators) and complements the authors' book Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia to provide comprehensive guidance for assessing and teaching learners with dyslexic-type difficulties. Sylvia Phillips is an experienced Special Educational Needs educator, and currently leads Glyndwr University's specialist course for teachers of learners with dyslexia. Kath Kelly is Programme Leader for the Masters in Specific Learning Difficulties, Manchester Metropolitan University. Liz Symes is Senior Lecturer in SEN (Special Educational Needs) and Professional Studies, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Overcoming Dyslexia

Author: Sally E. Shaywitz
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 9780375400124
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 416

Book Description
Draws on recent scientific breakthroughs to explain the mechanisms underlying dyslexia, offering parents age-specific, grade-by-grade instructions on how to help their children.

Embrace a Different Kind of Mind

Author: Deborah Hewes
Publisher: Dyslexia Association of Singapore
ISBN: 9810975511
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 400

Book Description
EMBRACE DYSLEXIA is an initiative by the Dyslexia Association of Singapore (DAS) which endeavours to foster greater awareness about dyslexia with the aim of helping everyone to understand both the strengths and the challenges in the lives of individuals who have dyslexia. An initiative of EMBRACE DYSLEXIA was to encourage individuals with dyslexia to share their personal stories so that they may become role models for the young students that are supported by DAS. More than 50 personal stories of dyslexia are included in this book all are individuals who have worked to make a difference in the fabric of Singapore and wish to instill in young students with dyslexia to strive for equal if not greater success in their educational journeys This book was released in Singapore's 50th anniversary, and contains the story of Former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew a dyslexic, visionary, leader, father and builder of a Nation. Indeed, many of the contributors to the book cite Mr Lee as an inspiration to their own success, he gave them the determination and passion to pursue their dreams and passions. It is an inspiring read and gives hope to those families who have children with learning differences such as dyslexia.

DYSLEXIA

Author: Sally E. Shaywitz
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alexia
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This prevalent reading problem has puzzled medical researchers and parents alike for 100 years. The latest evidence indicates that dyslexic children have trouble breaking words into constituent sounds, which makes it harder for them to connect speech with letters of the alphabet.

Diary of a Dyslexic School Kid

Author: Alais Winton
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN: 1784508144
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114

Book Description
Experience day-to-day life for a dyslexic kid, including school life, bullying and coping with tests and homework, in this frank and funny diary. Co-authored with a teenage boy with dyslexia and illustrated with cartoons, this is a positive yet honest look at the difficulties of being dyslexic. Using a simple and relatable approach, the authors display the ups and downs of school - and home - life with a reading difficulty, focussing on the sometimes overwhelming experience of being at a bigger school and studying loads of new subjects. Providing tips for what really helps and works based on real-life experience, this fun, accessible book shows teens and tweens with dyslexia that they are far from alone in their experiences.

Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia

Author: Kathleen Kelly
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1473967945
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 489

Book Description
The Second Edition of this bestselling book provides a structured multi-sensory programme for teaching literacy to children and young people from 5-18 with dyslexia and other specific literacy difficulties. Supported by a wealth of resources available online and updated throughout, the new edition now includes a brand new section on Implementing the Accelerated Programme for learners who have already acquired some literacy skills. This includes: A placement test to indicate whether the programme is appropriate A diagnostic assessment procedure to determine where the learner should begin on the Accelerated Programme Examples of lesson plans, reading cards and spelling cards to help teachers prepare resources for their students With tried and tested strategies and activities this book continues to provide everything you need to help improve and develop the literacy skills of learners in your setting including; the rationale for a structured multi-sensory approach the development of phonological, reading, writing and spelling skills working with learners who have English as an Additional Language (EAL) lesson structure and lesson-planning alphabet and dictionary skills memory work and study skills teaching the programme to groups ideas for working with young children.