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The following articles, taken from recent issues of our Optimus newsletters, will prove invaluable for anyone with a professional or personal interest in Dyslexia. To ensure you stay up-to-date with the very latest thinking in this area, please make use of the articles below. If you can’t find what you’re looking for here, simply click on another category on the left or 'search the library'.

Dyslexia seen as an ‘instructional dysfunction’ rather than a disability | Dyslexia

A report into the range of teaching approaches used for dyslexic children in Scotland and their effectiveness recommends early intervention and a tailored approach, with an emphasis on the power of appropriate teaching techniques to help children to become normal learners

Dyslexia within mainstream education: information and advice for SENCOs | Dyslexia

Rosemary Norburn and Glenys Heap, both Training Principals from Dyslexia Action, describe new advice and support available for SENCOs

Colour in the classroom | Dyslexia

More and more schools throughout the country are realising that children with specific reading difficulties can be helped by the use of colour, either in the form of coloured overlays or as individually prescribed coloured spectacle lenses. By Tim Noakes.

Highly able children with dyslexia | Dyslexia

Dr Carrie Winstanley explains the principle of dual exceptionality with dyslexic children

New technology helps visually impaired | Dyslexia

A unique combination of sound and touch is bringing a whole new world of teaching opportunities into both special needs and mainstream education.



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