This comprehensive, practical resource gives educators at all levels essential information, techniques, and tools for understanding dyslexia and adapting teaching methods in all subject areas to meet the learning style, social, and emotional needs of students who have dyslexia. Special features include over 50 full–page activity sheets that can be photocopied for immediate use and interviews with students and adults who have had personal experience with dyslexia. Organized into twenty sections, information covers everything from ten principles of instruction to teaching reading, handwriting, spelling, writing, math, everyday skills, and even covers the adult with dyslexia.
How To Reach and Teach Children and Teens with Dyslexia : A Parent and Teacher Guide to Helping Students of All Ages Academically, Socially, and Emotionally
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Table of Contents
About the Resource.
Chapter 1. What is Dyslexia?
Chapter 2. Assessment and Diagnosis.
Chapter 3. About Special Education.
Chapter 4. Intervention.
Chapter 5. Ten General Principles of Instruction.
Chapter 6. Teaching Reading.
Chapter 7. Teaching Handwriting.
Chapter 8. Teaching Spelling.
Chapter 9. Teaching Writing.
Chapter 10. Teaching Math.
Chapter 11. Teaching Related Subjects.
Chapter 12. Teaching Everyday Skills.
Chapter 13. Issues Related to Dyslexia.
Chapter 14. Add and ADHD.
Chapter 15. Behavior and Social Skills.
Chapter 16. Self–Esteem and Other Emotional Needs.
Chapter 17. Transitions.
Chapter 18. What Can Parents Do?
Chapter 19. Talents.
Chapter 20. The Adult with Dyslexia.
Bibliography.
Author Description
About Cynthia M. Stowe
Cynthia M. Stowe, M.Ed., is a certified special education teacher and school psychologist who has worked with children of all ages and with adults. She is the author of Let′s Write and Spelling Smart! as well as children′s novels, including Home Sweet, Good–Bye; Dear Mom in Ohio for a Year; and Not–So–Normal Norman