Dyslexia A Teaching Handbook

This highly practical handbook meets the need for a general guide that provides teachers with the skills, techniques and structure to help children with specific learning difficulties achieve success.

Dr Michael Thomson is Principal of East Court, an internationally acclaimed specialist school for dyslexia, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Applied Child Psychology at the University of Kent. He is also an executive editor of Dyslexia, the journal of the British Dyslexia Association, an Associate of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Educational Psychologist and a Fellow of the International Academy for Research into Learning Difficulties.

Preface to the First Edition
Preface to th Second Edition
Introduction
Historical context and definition
Features of dyslexia
Dyslexia as a syndrome
Causes of dyslexia
Reading and spelling development
Assessment and teaching
Addendum: Dyslexia and the 1981 Education Act
Code of Practice
Individual Educational Plans
Dyslexia and the National Curriculum
Making a Start
Setting up a dyslexia unit
Priniples of teaching
General classroom procedures
From Spoken to Written Language
Introduction
Linguistic knowledge required by child and teacher
Written language structure
Teaching techniques
Reading
Introduction
Use of word lists
Syllable analysis
Developing reading skills
Listening to dyslexics read
Written language structure and meaning
Choosing a book
Useful reading schemes
Spelling
Introduction
Teaching techniques for spelling
Spelling rules
Using dictionaries
Writing
Handwriting
Essay writing
Grammar
The Older Student
Choice of course
Study skills
Examinations
Computers and Dyslexia
Using information technology in a specialist school
Computers in the classroom
Information technology curriculum
Using computers with dyslexics
Curriculum outline for word processing with dyslexics
Interactive books
Appendices
Examples of Individual Educational Plans (IEP) - English
Phonic work sheets
Common words for a basic sight vocabulary
Suggested key word list for irregular words
Key word list for school subjects
Word lists
Spelling rules
Vowel digraphs/diphthongs
Ways of spelling
The impossible word list
Statementing
Using the Aston Portfolio for prescriptive teaching based on error analysis
Some examples of minimal pair words (southern British pronunciation)
Word processing examples
Reading game
References
Index
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