Book Description
This thoroughly revised edition of the popular Dyslexia: A Practitioner's Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research and practice in dyslexia. It provides a range of assessment and teaching strategies that can be applied in mainstream primary and secondary schools.
This new edition:
- reviews new and alternative interventions for dyslexia and international initiatives
- focuses on inclusion, describing best practice in schools, as well as covering issues relating to multilingualism
- highlights the challenges presented by individual subject areas of the curriculum, issues for students in further and continuing education and the perspective of parents
- includes a fully revised annotated bibliography of recently published resources and comments on how they can be used.
COMMENTS ON THE SECOND EDITION
'Gavin Reid has the ability to make a complicated subject easily accessible to the reader. … I recommend this book to everyone undertaking teacher training and to all teachers with pupils struggling with literacy.' European Journal of Special Needs Education
'This book brings together in a helpful format a great deal of useful information and ideas which will be of value to teachers and others working in this field.' The Psychologist
JA Majors Book Info
Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of research and practice in dyslexia. Provides assessment and teaching strategies applicable to mainstream primary and secondary schools. Includes new and alternative interventions for dyslexia; a fully revised and annotated bibliography, and comments on how they can be used. Previous edition: c1998. Hardcover, softcover available.
