The Dyslexia-Friendly Primary School: A Practical Guide for Teachers

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SAGE, Aug 16, 2007 - Education - 120 pages
Is your school dyslexia-friendly?

Beginning with a look at understanding dyslexia, this book shows you how to involve the whole school in order to achieve a dyslexia-friendly environment.

You will be able to:

- use an audit tool to discover how dyslexia-friendly your school is

- look at examples of successful dyslexia-friendly initiatives

- find information on funding and resources.

This book offers a step-by-step guide to creating a dyslexia-friendly classroom and whole-school environment.

Headteachers, deputy headteachers, class teachers, SENCOs, student teachers and literacy co-ordinators wanting to make their school more dyslexia-friendly will find this practical book extremely useful.

Barbara Pavey worked as a teacher and SEN specialist for many years and is now Lecturer in Learning Disabilities at The University of Manchester.

 

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Contents

Introduction
1
1 Developing an Understanding of Dyslexia
3
2 A DyslexiaFriendly Focus
14
3 DyslexiaFriendly Perspectives
26
4 The Family View
37
5 The DyslexiaFriendly Initiative and the Local Authority LA
47
6 From the DyslexiaFriendly Local Authority LA to the DyslexiaFriendly School
58
7 From the DyslexiaFriendly School to the DyslexiaFriendly Classroom
69
Ways Forward
93
References
97
Index
101
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About the author (2007)

Barbara Pavey worked as a teacher and SEN specialist for many years and is now Lecturer in Education (SEN) at the University of Wales, Swansea.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Dyslexia-Friendly Primary School: A Practical Guide for Teachers
AuthorBarbara Pavey
Editionunabridged
PublisherSAGE, 2007
ISBN1446237893, 9781446237892
Length120 pages
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Education / Special Education / General
Education / Special Education / Learning Disabilities
  
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