Dyslexia is a common
learning difficulty that can cause problems with reading, writing and spelling.
It's a "specific
learning difficulty", which means it causes problems with certain
abilities used for learning, such as reading and writing. Unlike a learning disability, intelligence isn't affected.
It's estimated that up to
1 in every 10 to 20 people in the UK has some degree of dyslexia.
This year the theme of
Dyslexia Awareness Week is “Positive
about dyslexia”, with the British Dyslexia Association taking on a
different aim each day in order to reinforce the idea of bringing positivity
when talking about dyslexia. These aims are as follows:
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Monday
2nd Oct – Early Identification.
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Tuesday
3rd Oct – Appropriate Teaching Provision.
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Wednesday
4th Oct – Appropriate Assessments.
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Thursday
5th Oct – Reasonable Adjustments.
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Friday
6th Oct – To raise dyslexia awareness.
For more information
surrounding dyslexia please visit the NHS Choices and British Dyslexia
Association websites; http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Dyslexia/Pages/Introduction.aspx http://www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/fundraising/dyslexia-awareness-week
RELATED HEALTH LIBRARY RESOURCES
For anyone studying the importance of
improving knowledge of and supporting those who have dyslexia, the Health
Library offers numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below
you’ll find a variety of items as well as information on materials recently
added to our collection and available periodicals. To locate these items,
simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.
BOOKS
·
Dyslexia-friendly further and higher education / by Barbara Pavey Margaret Meehan; Alan
Waugh, 2010, London : SAGE.
·
Dyslexia, learning, and the brain / by Rod. Nicolson Angela Fawcett, 2008,
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press
·
Dyslexia
in the workplace : an introductory guide / by Diana
Bartlett Sylvia Moody; Katherine Kindersley, 2001, 2nd edition, Oxford:
Wiley-Blackwell. [Also available as a ebook]
·
Overcoming dyslexia : a straight-forward guide
for families and teachers / by
Bevé Hornsby, 1996, Revised edition, London: Vermilion.
·
Dyslexia what parents ought to know / by Quin, Vera Author MacAuslan, Alan Author, 2nd
edition, 1988, Harmondsworth Penguin Books.
·
Cognitive assessment for clinicians / by John R. Hodges, 2007, 2nd edition,
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
JOURNALS
·
Dyslexia, Chichester, UK : John Wiley & Sons . [Available as a Keele
ejournal 1995 onwards & NHS ejournal 2000 with a 1 year embargo].
·
Annals
of dyslexia, Berlin : Springer. [Available as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards
& NHS ejournal 1998 with a 1 year embargo].
·
Journal
of Intellectual disabilities, London: SAGE
Publications. [Available in print, and also as a Keele ejournal 1995 onwards & NHS ejournal 2005 -
2011].
·
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, Kidlington, Oxford : Elsevier Science [Available as a Keele ejournal 1997 onwards
& NHS ejournal 2007 onwards].
JOURNAL ARTICLES
·
Taub,
Marc, “DYSLEXIA”, Journal of Behavioral
Optometry, 2011, Vol.22(2), pp.48-49. [Available via Keele & NHS
ejournals]
·
Schiff,
Rachel and Elinor Saiegh-Haddad, “When diglossia meets dyslexia: The effect of
diglossia on voweled and unvoweled word reading among native Arabic-speaking
dyslexic children”, Reading and Writing,
2017, Vol.30(5), pp.1089-1113. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
Staels,
Eva etal., “No Solid Empirical Evidence for the SOLID (Serial Order Learning
Impairment) Hypothesis of Dyslexia”, Journal
of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2015,
Vol.41(3), pp.650-669. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
DeBrew,
Jacqueline, “Who Will Help My Son?: A Family's Journey with Dyslexia”, Journal of Psychosocial Nursing & Mental
Health Services; Vol.55(8), pp.27-30. [Available via Keele & NHS
ejournals]
·
Peterson,
Robin L ;and Bruce F. Pennington,,
“Developmental dyslexia”, Lancet, 26
May 2012, Vol.379(9830), pp.1997-2007. [Available in print, and via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
Sigurdardottir,
Heida Maria et al., “Impaired Recognition of Faces and Objects in Dyslexia:
Evidence for Ventral Stream Dysfunction?”, Neuropsychology,
2015, Vol.29(5), pp.739-750. [Available via Keele & NHS ejournals]
·
Sumner,
Emma ; Connelly, Vincent ; Barnett, Anna L, “The Influence of Spelling Ability
on Vocabulary Choices When Writing for Children With Dyslexia”, Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2016,
Vol.49(3), pp.293-304. [Available via Keele ejournals]
·
Yule,
W, “Dyslexia”, Psychological Medicine, 1976, Vol.6(2), pp.165-167. [Available
via Keele ejournals]
PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE
Dyslexia - NHS Evidence search
with ‘Information for the Public’ filter https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/Search?om=[{%22ety%22:[%22Information%20for%20the%20Public%22]}]&q=dyslexia&sp=on
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