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Early Childhood
Books/Articles:
“Reading Strategies & Activities Resource Book for Students at Risk for Reading Difficulties, Including Dyslexia”
http://resources.buildingrti.utexas.org/PDF/Reading_Strategies.pdf
This article contains examples of research-based lessons designed for use with K-3 struggling readers, including those with dyslexia. A set of instructional strategies is provided for each component of reading (phonemic awareness, alphabetic understanding, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension). Each strategy includes example lessons showing the progression of intervention lessons over time.
Click on the link below to view the article:
http://resources.buildingrti.utexas.org/PDF/Reading_Strategies.pdf
Shaywitz, S., Morris, R., & Shaywitz, B. (2008). The education of dyslexia children from childhood to young adulthood. Annual Review of Psychology, 59, 451-475.
This article is about a study done by the authors. They looked for the definition, prevalence, and developmental course of dyslexia. They also examined the cognitive model of dyslexia looking at the evidence-based approaches to diagnosis and treatment, including interventions and accommodations. They reviewed reading interventions effective in early grades, and then reviewed interventions for older students. The article discusses the crucial role of accommodating students with dyslexia.
Websites/Videos: Click on the link to view the webpage
http://www.readingresource.net/
This website can be used for teachers with students with dyslexia as a resource in helping the children learn to read. It provides reading strategies, teacher resources, reading activities. Some of the strategies include fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and phonemic awareness. There is also an overview page in which describes dyslexia, the causes, and symptoms.
In the video below you will hear a presentation from Susan Barton (Dyslexic Advantage Organization). She shares why instruction alone will not help students with dyslexia get much past a third grade reading level. You will learn about the classic reading and spelling mistakes dyslexic students make (and why) and how to get them past a "third grade brick wall" in reading.
Middle Childhood
Books/Articles:
“Accommodating Students with Dyslexia in all Classroom Settings”
This article explains accommodations teachers can make for students with dyslexia. The accommodations provided by the author are practical and offer a framework for helping students with dyslexia achieve in general education and special education classrooms. They are organized according to accommodations involving materials, interactive instruction, and student performance.
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The Dyslexia Checklist By: Sandra Rief and Judith Stern
This book is 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 provides 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.The book also provides information on the educational rights of students with dyslexia.
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Explains what we now know about dyslexia from decades of research
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Contains games to strengthen a child's literacy and language skills
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Provides important information for hooking in reluctant and struggling readers
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Offers suggestions for enhancing skills in vocabulary, comprehension, composition and written expression, spelling, math, and more
Websites/Videos
http://www.beatingdyslexia.com/dyslexia-teaching.html
This website contains a range of dyslexia teaching resources that will help to inspire independent learning. Resources include; spelling, reading, writing, phonics. There are lessons and games available in this website. Below is a video that helps to explain the webpage and the resources available.
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"Dyslexic Advantage": To Understand, Build, and Use the Essential Strengths of the Dyslexic Mind
This website provides Q & A forums, blog sites, research, and dyslexia tech. Educators can use this site to better understand dyslexia. Below is a video by Dr. Mimi Koehl, in which she presents information on dyslexia and the webpage “Dyslexia Advantage”. In the video she also shares some of her own personal experiences with dyslexia.
Adolescent & Young Adults
Books/Articles:
The Gift of Dyslexia, Revised and Expanded: Why Some of the Smartest People Can't Read...and How They Can Learn By Ronald Davis (2010)
This book provides a new program with a “remarkably high success rate” in helping dyslexics learn to read and to overcome other difficulties associated with it. It also includes new teaching techniques and revised throughout with up-to-date information on research, studies, and contacts. There are four parts to this book:
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Part One: What Dyslexia Really Is
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Part Two: A Developmental Theory of Dyslexia
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Part Three: The Gift
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Part Four: Doing Something About It
“Dyslexia in the Classroom: What Every Teacher Needs to Know” By: International Dyslexia Association (2013)
This article provides a resource toolkit to classroom teachers with basic information about dyslexia, and will increase educators’ ability to ensure the success of the diverse group of learners in their classrooms. The kit can help raise awareness, share best practices, and be a resource to the school’s administration and staff.
Click the link below to view this article/resource kit:
http://www.interdys.org/ewebeditpro5/upload/DyslexiaInTheClassroom.pdf
Websites/Videos:
In this video Kelli Sandman-Hurley helps us to think about dyslexic brain function and to understand the neurodiversity of the human brain by providing examples and information on the matter.
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This websites provides products, services, resources, and audiobook lists for educators working with children with dyslexia. Educators can find ways to recognize the signs of dyslexia in their classroom through this webpage. There are also professional development options for learning more about dyslexia within Learning Ally.
Organizations:
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The International Dyslexia Association (IDA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit, scientific, and educational organization dedicated to the study and treatment of the learning disability, dyslexia as well as related language-based learning differences.
Their mission is to promote effective teaching approaches and related clinical educational intervention strategies for people with dyslexia. They support and encourage interdisciplinary research. They believe that all individuals have the right to achieve their potential, that individual learning abilities can be strengthened and that social, educational and cultural barriers to language acquisition and use must be removed.
The purpose of IDA is to pursue and provide the most comprehensive range of information and services that address the full scope of dyslexia and related difficulties in learning to read and write. . . In a way that creates hope, possibility, and partnership.
So that every individual has the opportunity to lead a productive and fulfilling life, and society benefits from the resource that is liberated.
Children's Dyslexia Centers, Inc. purpose is to provide clinically proven dyslexia tutoring services within 13 states. They are the only organization offering two years of intensive one-on-one tutoring in the proven Orton-Gillingham approach, completely free of charge. Children are eligible regardless of economic status or Masonic affiliation. The positive impact of early intervention on the lives of these children and their families is enormous and inspires our commitment to this program.
Mission:
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To provide the highest quality multisensory reading and written language tutorial services for children
with dyslexia, through a network of nationally recognized centers of excellence.
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To promote and encourage education of tutorial trainees, professionals, and the public, to become resources in teaching children to read.
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To advance the body of scientific knowledge of dyslexia through support of clinical research, to improve today’s standards and tomorrow’s care.
The Dyslexia Foundation (TDF), a non-profit organization, was established in 1989 to identify and their purpose is to assist children with dyslexia – to establish higher levels of learning through specialized programs promoting better reading.
Their mission is to promote scientific breakthroughs in the early detection, prevention and remediation of dyslexia and related reading difficulties. To disseminate new findings and deploy new evidence based approaches. To prevent the suffering caused by reading failure and unlock the full potential of children and adults with dyslexia so that they may personally succeed and contribute to society.
