Decoding Dyslexia: 14 Programmes for Helping Dyslexia

By Jennifer Poole

This is probably the only book on dyslexia you need. Whether you are a parent, student, educationalist or academic, this book will give you a complete overview of the subject. Based on a 5-year research project on the shared 'active ingredients' of 14 successful methods for helping children with dyslexia, it begins with an accessible outline of the three current major theories on dyslexia before describing 14 different programmes. Decoding Dyslexia also proposes a new hypothesis for developmental dyslexia, grounded in what actually works in helping children with dyslexia, and unifies currently disjointed theories to incorporate the wider child-development issues underlying literacy. Finally a Positive Manifesto for Dyslexia outlines a new way of approaching teaching literacy in order to prevent constructing dyslexia and stigmatising difference in thinking or learning style. If you need an introduction to theory and practice in dyslexia plus a radical new solution-based hypothesis for preventing difficulties in literacy acquisition in the future, this is it.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1906510512
• ISBN13: 9781906510510
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: Troubador Publishing
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"