Dyslexia Checklist: A Practical Reference for Parents and Teachers
Sandra F Rief MA, Judith Stern
The Dyslexia Checklist helps parents and teachers to better understand children and teenagers with dyslexia and other reading- and language-based disabilities. It provides the latest research -- what we know about dyslexia -- as well as practical strategies, supports, and interventions to accommodate the needs and strengthen the skills of students with reading and writing disabilities across age levels.
The material is organised into the following five sections:
Section 1: (Includes descriptions, symptoms and characteristics from early childhood through adulthood, what we now know about dyslexia from decades of research, the learning and processing problems associated with the disorder, diagnosis and research validated interventions, etc.
Section 2: Includes homework tips, advocacy tips, pursuing an evaluation, helping your child with auditory/visual processing difficulties, games to strengthen your child's literacy and language skills, looking for a tutor, etc.
Section 3: Includes important information for teachers, aides, and others working with dyslexic students, such as the necessity of differentiating instruction, hooking in reluctant and struggling readers, communicating with parents, etc.
Section 4: Academic Strategies, Supports, and Accommodations for Home and School (Includes phonemic awareness, letter/sound and blending, systematic phonics, sight/irregular words, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, composition & written expression, spelling, math, etc.
Section 5: Includes educational rights for students with dyslexia, response to intervention, the challenge of learning a second language, necessity of a team approach, web resources to understand and support children.
2010, 336 pages, softcover
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