Dyslexia and Talent

Jack Laws is a naturalist and an artist. He also has dyslexia. In a presentation he delivered at the 2013 Conference on Dyslexia and Talent, Laws offers support and encouragement to those with dyslexia. To watch the video of the presentation, please visit:
http://www.johnmuirlaws.com/video/dyslexic-naturalist-video

Mobile App Monday - American Wordspeller

Looking for help with spelling especially for someone with dyslexia or has English as a second language? American Wordspeller might be just what you're looking for. This app offers to help you spell words by how they sound even if you can only get the first two or three letters. Type "fone" and your results might be: fone, phone funny, and phony along with the definitions just to be sure.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id397617771

A font for dyslexia

This year's Istanbul Design Biennial showcases a typeface created specifically for dyslexic people by Dutch designer Christian Boer. Boer's typeface offers letters that are designed with heavier bottom portions and tails, where possible, in addition to heavier punctuation and bold capitals to help define the ending and beginning of sentences.

Want to learn more about it? Please visit:
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/11/09/christian-boer-dyslexie-typeface-dyslexia-easier-reading-istanbul-design-biennial-2014/

The dyslexia empowerment plan

The dyslexia empowerment plan is packed with practical ideas and strategies children with dyslexia need for excelling in school and in life. This empowering guide provides the framework for charting a future for your child that is bright with hope and unlimited potential.

Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Mondy - Dyslexia Quest

Climb the mountain and play the yeti games. Each game will test memory and learning skills. The Yeti Master will explain signs of dyslexia.

• 6 games that each develop a different learning ability
• Email your results to those that need to know
• Suggests how to make better use of your learning strengths
• Explains what difficulties you will experience and where you have a weakness
• 3 different paths up the mountain encourage you to replay games and improve your skills
• Can you collect all 18 yetis?

To learn more about this app, please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dyslexia-quest/id448166369?mt=8&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

Mobile App Monday - Dyseggxia

Dyseggxia is a mobile game that helps children with dyslexia overcome their reading and writing problems by the means of fun word games. All exercises in Dyseggxia have been scientifically designed to target reading and writing errors specific for dyslexic children.

Interested? Learn more at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dyseggxia/id534986729?mt=8

The Dyslexic Adult: Interventions and Outcomes

From the book description for The Dyslexic Adult:

"A definitive and evidence-based guide for psychologists, teachers, coaches, HR personnel and all professionals who must understand and work with dyslexic adults.

• The only book to look at dyslexia within the context of life span developmental psychology, including the factors that contribute to success - now fully revised and updated
• Combines an accessible style with a strong focus on evidence-based practice and a sound theoretical model on which to base assessment, counselling, teaching and training
• Provides a clear guide to the kinds of assessment that can be conducted and the ways in which dyslexic adults can be supported in selection, training, education and employment
• Includes coverage of overlapping syndromes such as dyspraxia and dyscalculia, and up-to-date check lists for syndromes that can be used as part of the assessment process"

To check out this title, email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Back to Front and Upside Down

Back to Front and Upside Down is a wonderful children's book for those with dyslexia. A classmate helps Stan understand, when Stan writes his letters all wrong, that nobody's good at everything. Stan finds that with a little extra help and a lot of practice, his letters come out all right.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Mobile App Monday - eReading: Greek Myths

Looking for a reading app for children with dyslexia, LD, FASD, autism, slow readers, and other language based issues? The eReading: Greek Myths app combines 37 original illustrations with narrations and highlighting to help create a fun reading experience for those who find reading difficult. The reader completely controls the reading experience. Have it read to you or try to read it yourself.

Want to know more about it? Please visit: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ereading-greek-myths/id430731994?mt=8#

Studying with Dyslexia

Looking for help with your dyslexia? Studying with Dyslexia is a handy guide that offers skills and advice to help you use your dyslexia constructively and become an effective student. Pocket-sized, but full of tips and tricks, this little purple book also offers plenty of pictures and drawings for those who are more visual.

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia

Looking for help teaching literacy to children with dyslexia? Pick up Teaching Literacy to Learners with Dyslexia: A Multisensory Approach. Here's an excerpt from the book's description:

"...It offers a structured, cumulative, multi-sensory teaching program for learners with dyslexia, and draws attention to some of the wider aspects of the learning styles and differences of learners with dyslexia such as memory, information processing, and automaticity. Designed to help support any learner, ages 5 to 18, with dyslexia or specific learning difficulties."

Want to check it out? Email us at cedir@indiana.edu or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

100+ Ideas for Supporting Children with Dyslexia

100+ ideas for supporting children with dyslexia is a practical guide providing more than 100 great ideas for reinforcing children's learning. This second edition is up-to-date with the latest research and best practices on dyslexia. It also includes a new section on differentiation in the classroom. Full of ready-to-use activities and strategies for the non-specialist teacher in need of extra guidance, the book also offers new ideas and insights to SENCOs, head teachers, parents and carers and anyone else working with a child or young person with dyslexia.

Email us at cedir@indiana.edu to check out this title.

Dyslexia and Talents

In an article in Sunday's Washington Post, writer Annie Murphy Paul takes a look at recent research on dyslexia and some of its surprising results: skills in areas not seen in typical readers. Studies have now shown "many people with dyslexia [to] possess distinctive perceptual abilities."


To read the entire article, visit: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-upside-of-dyslexia.html?_r=1&src=tp

My Dyslexia

My dyslexia is the moving story of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner Philip Schultz. As a child, Schultz always felt as if he was being relegated to the "dummy class" in school, where he was largely ignored. Many years later, his oldest son was diagnosed with dyslexia, and Schultz wondered whether he might also have the same condition.


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Don't Erase Your Dreams

Joe Cooper couldn't read, write or spell until he was 38 years old. Don't erase your dreams is the story of how he struggled with illiteracy, dyslexia and years of frustration and discrimination. Cooper, who left home at the age of 15 to live on the streets, in vacant cars, and on friends' couches, was taken advantage of by many people throughout the years because of his illiteracy. His continuing pursuit of a formal education makes his story is an inspirational one for those who also struggle with education.

Feeling inspired? Check out this title by sending us an email at cedir@indiana.edu. Or use worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

New DVD on dyslexia

Read Me Differently is a video about a woman struggling with dyslexia which was not diagnosed until she was 29 years old. Her subsequent search for answers leads to some surprising revelations about her mother and grandmother.

Interested? To check out this title, please send us an email at cedir@indiana.edu. Or try worldcat.org to find it in a library near you.

Dyslexia: Learning Disorder or Creative Gift?

Dyslexia: learning disorder or creative gift? is written by Cornelia Jantzen, a consultant and mother of two children with dyslexia. Drawing from personal experience and professional research, Jantzen explores different methods of and philosophies about teaching literacy, as well as the workings of the brain. She is a proponent of the Davis method, which "enables students to use all their senses in learning written language."

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Dyslexia-Friendly Further & Higher Education

Dyslexia-friendly further & higher education by Barbara Pavey, Margaret Meehan, and Alan Waugh is a short paperback for "all practitioners involved in supporting students in FE and HE." The authors discuss how to improve the learning environment for post-secondary students with dyslexia as well as transition to employment issues. With 96 pages of text and thirty more of appendices, it is a quick but essential read for counselors, advisors, and other professionals in higher education.

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Dyslexia Checklist

The dyslexia checklist: a practical reference for parents and teachers follows the same vein as The autism checklist by Paula Kluth in the same Jossey-Bass Teacher series. Authored by best-selling speakers, authors and teachers Sandra Rief and Judith Stern, the book is a concise yet comprehensive resource for teachers and parents of children with dyslexia. The authors cover the basics of the condition, comprehension strategies, and practical advice such as how to enforce reading in the home.

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Dyslexia and Dysgraphia

Teaching students with dyslexia and dysgraphia: lessons from teaching and science by Virginia W. Berniger and Beverly J. Wolf explains how to meet the needs of students with special learning needs while effectively teaching all students in a K-12 class. The book focuses on the integration of psychology, linguistics, education, and neurology to best understand students with learning disabilities and efficiently tailor lessons to their needs. The text is dense, but essential for teachers of inclusive student bodies.

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