Living With Dyslexia

✍ Scribed by Barbara Riddick

• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Presenting case studies and interviews with all those concerned, combined with an up-to-date account of current thinking, this book provides an accessible and realistic account of dyslexia. Through listening to children, their parents and teachers we can learn more about dyslexia, and how to cope with it more effectively.Living With Dyslexia reports on a wide variety of issues including how children become to be identified as dyslexic, the kinds of social and emotional difficulties encountered by both themselves and their families, and how they fared within the educational system.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of tables......Page 10
Foreword by Baroness Warnock......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
Acknowledgements......Page 16
Defining dyslexia: an overview of dyslexia and specific learning difficulties......Page 18
The educational perspective......Page 38
Researching the social and emotional consequences of dyslexia......Page 49
Introducing the study......Page 68
Early indicators......Page 75
Identifying dyslexia......Page 94
Parents and teachers......Page 109
Home life and support......Page 120
Views on school......Page 135
Children's views on dyslexia......Page 157
Mothers' views......Page 180
Case studies......Page 196
Conclusions and recommendations......Page 218
Appendix......Page 225
Suggested further reading......Page 231
Useful addresses......Page 233
References......Page 234
Index......Page 245