Dyslexia

A teacher and university lecturer for many years, Dr Gavin Reid is an Educational Psychologist in Vancouver, Canada, a consultant with the Center for Child Evaluation and Teaching (CCET) in Kuwait, and a Director of the Red Rose School for Children with Dyslexia in Lancashire, UK. He is a prolific author, international consultant and trainer and has held seminars on effective learning in more than 50 countries worldwide.

Praise for the second edition: 'The target audience for this book is the non-specialist and, given the paucity of coverage on SEN/dyslexia in most initial teacher training programmes, this is likely to be a wide audience...Reid discusses the use of writing frames which are applicable across the curriculum and which can be modified for all learners. Many of these strategies can be used for all children, not just those identified as dyslexic and this is a real strength of this approach. Reid makes the case that effective support for dyslexics does not require the teacher to create activities which are only appropriate for individual teaching but are helpful for all learners...The layout of the book is clear, and a brief summary is provided at the end of each chapter.'SPECIAL magazine

• Introduction \ Dyslexia: Current Perspectives \ 2. Research in Dyslexia \ 3. Identification and Assessment \ 4. Teaching Approaches \ 5. Spelling \ 6. Supporting the Writing Process \ 7. Learning Differences \ 8. Making Learning Effective \ 9. Dyslexia in the Secondary School: Making Inclusion Effective \ 10. Specific Learning Difficulties: Overlap, Continuum and Intervention \ 11. Specific Learning Difficulties and Alternative Interventions \ 12. Working with Parents \ Appendix 1: Suggestions for Follow-up \ Appendix 2: Contacts \ Appendix 3: Tests Used for Dyslexia \ References \ Web links \ Index