Book Description
Addresses the special needs of the dyslexic student, focusing on how parents can work with the school system to obtain an educational evaluation and secure appropriate placement for the student.
Author : Kathleen Nosek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Dyslexia
ISBN : 0878338829
Addresses the special needs of the dyslexic student, focusing on how parents can work with the school system to obtain an educational evaluation and secure appropriate placement for the student.
Author : Kathleen Nosek
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 1995-04-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1461625297
Veteran educator Kathleen Nosek tells parents the secrets to successfully navigating today's school system and ensuring that dyslexic children receive the quality education they are entitled to by law.
Author : Julian G. Elliott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,76 MB
Release : 2014-03-24
Category : Education
ISBN : 0521119863
An examination of how we use the term 'dyslexia' and how this may undermine aid for struggling readers.
Author : Jonathan Glazzard
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 2021-06-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 1838819665
This book includes a variety of perspectives on dyslexia from different contexts. Chapters provide examples of empirical research; the outcomes of which have the potential to improve the experiences of individuals with dyslexia. The book emphasises the importance of adopting a capability rather than a deficit approach.
Author : Martin Turner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2006-01-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0306485346
In long-ago 1999, the Dyslexia Institute and Plenum Press conceived a plan for two books which would gather the best of current knowledge and practice in dyslexia studies. This would benefit those—but not only those—many individuals who train with us, acquiring a postgraduate certificate and diploma with our higher education partner, the University of York. Since then, the century changed, the hinge of history creaked and Plenum was taken over by Kluwer Academic Publishers, but the first of the pair, Dyslexia in Practice, emerged quickly and on schedule (Townend and Turner, 2000). Written by staff and close associates of the Institute, its chapters were produced under close scrutiny and with the expedition of a command economy. To our delight, the book has seen a success which went beyond the dreams of its editors: it has been adopted by other courses similar to our own and is widely referred to. The same was never likely to be true of The Study of Dyslexia, which was envisaged as a theoretical companion volume written by authors and researchers of international repute. Nearly five years after the idea first took shape, this second volume now arrives to complete the enterprise, but it has been a very different project.
Author : Terezinha Nunes
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9401717311
PETER BRYANT & TEREZINHA NUNES The time that it takes children to learn to read varies greatly between different orthographies, as the chapter by Sprenger-Charolles clearly shows, and so do the difficulties that they encounter in learning about their own orthography. Nevertheless most people, who have the chance to learn to read, do in the end read well enough, even though a large number experience some significant difficulties on the way. Most of them eventually become reasonably efficient spellers too, even though they go on make spelling mistakes (at any rate if they are English speakers) for the rest of their lives. So, the majority of humans plainly does have intellectual resources that are needed for reading and writing, but it does not always find these resources easy to marshal. What are these resources? Do any of them have to be acquired? Do different orthographies make quite different demands on the intellect? Do people differ significantly from each other in the strength and accessibility of these resources? If they do, are these differences an important factor in determining children's success in learning to read and write? These are the main questions that the different chapters in this section on Basic Processes set out to answer.
Author : Adrian J. Wallbank
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 10,99 MB
Release : 2018-01-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 135196688X
This book presents a unique visual approach to academic writing and composition specifically tailored to the needs of dyslexic students in higher education. Readers will learn to successfully structure and articulate their ideas, get to grips with critical reading, thinking and writing, and fulfil their full academic potential. The ‘writing process’ is demystified and techniques for writing compelling, insightful and mark generating essays are conveyed via innovative and meaningful representations, templates, images, icons and prompts, specifically designed to meet the visual and ‘big picture’ strengths of dyslexic learners. A companion website offers supplementary exercises, examples, videos and a full range of downloadable templates and bookmarks. Written by a dyslexic for dyslexics, Academic Writing and Dyslexia is underpinned by extensive research. As a dyslexic student you will learn to present your thoughts with confidence, critically evaluate competing arguments and gain top marks. The book will help you bridge the gap between your existing coping strategies and the increased demands and rigours of academic writing at university. It will be an invaluable resource for dyslexic students, academics, dyslexia specialists, learning developers and writing tutors throughout the higher education sector.
Author : Janet Townend
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 29,55 MB
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780306462511
A guide for teachers who want to become competent in the skills required to assess, teach, support, and counsel dyslexic people in a variety of settings. British professionals, most from The Dyslexia Institute, synthesize the current practice and explain the cognitive and linguistic weaknesses that underpin the condition and the highly structured multi-sensory approach that teaches reading and spelling skills at the appropriate rate. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Monika Lodej
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 31,16 MB
Release : 2016-08-17
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443898120
According to International Educational Statistics (2008), there are total of 654.9 million school-age children in the world. If dyslexia affects 10–15% of these youth (Fletcher et al. 2007), this translates to approximately 65–98 million students with difficulties in reading and writing. The EU strategic plan for education (2010) recognises the need for EU citizens to speak a foreign language. As such, foreign language courses are introduced on an obligatory basis at the primary level of education. Dyslexic students are not exempt from this regulation, and, thus, are confronted with different language systems that must be mastered. The difficulty here escalates if the systems differ significantly in their levels of orthographic transparency. Reading and writing are operationalised by the same biological functions that are defined by the universal perspective. However, language systems differ in terms of their transparency; for example, English and French are considered opaque scripts, whereas Spanish and Italian are described as transparent orthographies. These differences are discussed in this book as part of the language specific perspective, which can, in turn, raise questions such as: “Is a dyslexic student equally impaired in any language they study?” and “Is the type of difficulty primarily dependent on the language system or is it rather a dyslexia syndrome?” This volume provides answers through a synthesis of research on reading difficulties in first and foreign languages and existing taxonomies of dyslexia sub-types.
Author : Ian Smythe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,4 MB
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 1441167544
Dyslexia is a complex condition, and every dyslexic needs a different solution. Technology is not that solution, but a part of the process to minimise the impact of dyslexia on individuals and to assist with the difficulties they face in everyday situations, so that they can demonstrate their potential in school or at work. This book takes the reader back to basics, from understanding the needs of the dyslexic individual to getting the most from available technology. It does this by providing frameworks from theoretical perspectives and following this through to practical implementation, including reviews of the most common types of software. There is plenty of practical advice on how to support dyslexic individuals using technology, including how to get the most out of what is available. It highlights state of the art technology, and suggests what more still needs to be done to make this technology truly enabling for all dyslexics.