Practical strategies for living with dyslexia / Maria Chivers.

  • Chivers, Maria
Date:
2001
  • Books

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Description

Over the years, many quick fix approaches to cure dyslexia have been developed and used. Written by a parent of two dyslexic sons, this new book is a practical guide to dyslexia's many miracle cures. New findings show that early diagnosis can help.

Publication/Creation

London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2001.

Physical description

106 pages ; 21 cm

Contributors

Contents

Famous people with dyslexia -- Introduction -- 1. What are dyslexia and dyscalculia? -- Dyslexia -- Dyscalculia -- 2. Identifying dyslexia -- Aston index assessment -- Cognitive profiling system -- Dyslexia screening tests -- Educational psychologist report -- LUCID assessment for schools -- Phonological assessment battery -- Summary -- 3. What causes dyslexia? -- 4. Vision -- Eye tests -- Tinted glasses and coloured overlays -- Dunlop test -- Visual tracking magnifier -- Vision and learning difficulties / Keith Holland -- Summary -- 5. Hearing -- Glue ear -- Fast ForWord -- Aural-Read-Respond-Oral-Write (ARROW) / Colin Lane -- Summary -- 6. Developmental -- Brain gym -- Brain injury rehabilitation and development -- Neruo-developmental delay / Gail Saye -- 7. Chiropractic & dyslexia / Chris Vickers -- 8. Vitamins and minerals -- Fatty acids & Efalex -- Iron supplements -- Zinc supplements -- Summary -- 9. Multi-sensory teaching methods -- What is multi-sensory? -- Teaching schemes -- 10. Can computers help? -- Software packages -- The hands-free computer -- Computers and examinations -- Psychometric testing -- 11. Neruolinguistic programming -- NLP and dyslexia -- 12. Phono-graphix -- 13. The value of play -- Conclusion -- I'm not marking this mess / Mark Chivers -- Dyslexia A, Z.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (page 91) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WL340.6 2001 C54p
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 185302905X
  • 9781853029059