Articles liés à Dyslexia: A Practitioners Handbook
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Synopsis
This new edition of an extremely successful practitioner's handbook incorporates the many changes in the definition and assessment of dyslexia and in educational policy (including some new legislation) that have taken place since the second edition was published in 1998. Completely revised and updated throughout, there are also new chapters covering learning styles, secondary school aspects, and dyslexia throughout the lifespan. Covers recent reports and legislation teachers and policy makers need to know about Provides practical material on instruction and teaching Written by an internationally well-known author Praise for the Second Edition: "...I found the handbook practical, readable, concise and an invaluable resource." Frederika Ritherdon, Principal SEN Officer, Bolton LEA "Your books are in hot demand from the library". Angie Silbery Shoji, CEO, Specific Learning Disabilities Association, New Zealand
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Quatrième de couverture
This thoroughly revised edition of the popular Dyslexia: APractitioner′s Handbook offers a comprehensive overview ofresearch and practice in dyslexia. It provides a range ofassessment and teaching strategies that can be applied inmainstream primary and secondary schools.
This new edition:
- reviews new and alternative interventions for dyslexia andinternational initiatives
- focuses on inclusion, describing best practice in schools, aswell as covering issues relating to multilingualism
- highlights the challenges presented by individual subject areasof the curriculum, issues for students in further and continuingeducation and the perspective of parents
- includes a fully revised annotated bibliography of recentlypublished resources and comments on how they can be used.
COMMENTS ON THE SECOND EDITION
′Gavin Reid has the ability to make a complicated subject easilyaccessible to the reader. ? I recommend this book to everyoneundertaking teacher training and to all teachers with pupilsstruggling with literacy.′ European Journal of Special NeedsEducation
′This book brings together in a helpful format a great deal ofuseful information and ideas which will be of value to teachers andothers working in this field.′ The Psychologist
Biographie de l'auteur
Dr Gavin Read is a lecturer at Moray House Institute of Education in Edinburgh and Course Leader for the Post-Graduate Awards in Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia). He was instrumental in the development of the first Master's Award in Dyslexia in Scotland and in the conversion of the course into an open and distance learning format. The course has been run in many countries and he has made numerous keynote conference presentations throughout the UK, Europe, United States, Hong Kong, and New Zealand.
He is the editor of the two volume text Dimensions of Dyslexia, author of Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia): A Handbook for Study and Practice and co-author of Specific Learning Difficulties (Dyslexia) A Resource Book for Parents and Teachers. He ahs also written a number of book chapters for journal articles.
He is a member of the British Dyslexia Association Accreditation Board for Teacher Training and has been a consultant in many national and international working groups on assessment, teaching and dyslexia in higher education.
He also has many years' experience as a class teacher and as an educational psychologist. He is Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society and has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Glasgow. He is committed to helping teachers develop an awareness of the learning needs and potential of dyslexic children.
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