Dyslexia Awareness Week 2nd - 8th October 2017

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:

●     Monday 2nd Oct –  Early Identification.

●     Tuesday 3rd Oct – Appropriate Teaching Provision.

●     Wednesday 4th Oct – Appropriate Assessments.

●     Thursday 5th Oct – Reasonable Adjustments.

●     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, 2^nd edition, 1988, Harmondsworth Penguin Books.

·        Study skills for dyslexic students / by Sandra Hargreaves, 2007, London : SAGE

·         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].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

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

CURRENT AWARENESS

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