WDNF Resources
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Dyslexia in the Digital Age by Ian Smythe
‘… an invaluable tool for anyone working with children and adults with dyslexia. It provides a wealth of information on what is available to facilitate expert performance. I particularly liked the author's recommendations!’ Professor Angela Fawcett, Director, Centre for Child Research, Swansea University, UK
‘… a very useful book for dyslexics and others with specific learning disabilities, and for those who work with them. It provides many practical suggestions about hardware, software and presentation of information, and explains concepts in clear, non-technical language. No dyslexic or service provider to dyslexics should be without it.’ Professor Linda Siegel, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
International Book of Dyslexia
The International Book of Dyslexia, edited by Ian Smythe, John Everatt and Robin Salter has now been published by Wiley's. The languages book includes details on dyslexia in 15 languages, while the countries book includes details on 53 countries. Full details are on the Wiley website.
For the languages book click here
For the countries book click here
"The most comprehensive scholarly examination to date of the influences that different languages may have on the assessment, diagnosis, prevention and remediation of reading disabilities." G Reid Lyon, NICHD.
Training for managers and tutors supporting dyslexic individuals, with online e-books. Contents available in EN, FI, DE, HU, BG, ES.
Learning English on a mobile phone.
Dessdys
Online e-learning on study skills. Available by April 2010 in EN, BG, HU, IT and TR.
Dys2 (Son of www.edysgate.org)
Edysgate won a UNESCO World Summit Award for Best in E-Content and Creativity in 2009. This is games and activities that may be used by tutors to help develop cognitive skills. Dys2 is Son of Edysgate. It is in development but Edysgate is still online at www.edysgate.org. Languages of Edysgate – EN, BG, DE, DK, ES.
Dyslexia Veto
BDA-led project on European dissemination of the Quality Mark, creating dyslexia friendly vocational training centres in Bulgaria, Hungary, Italy, Romania and the UK. Website launch in February 2010.
Self-evaluation tools for institutions now available as well as teachers self-assessment. Available in EN, HU, BG, ES and IT.
Please help the Embed European Assistive Technology Survey by completing the online form at http://tinyurl.com/embedtechnologysurvey (NB If you want to return to it later, copy that long web address at the top. It refers just to your data.)
Developing dyslexia support in higher education in Bosnian, Croatian, Hungarian, Romanian, Serbian and Slovenian as well as English. E-books online in March 2010 for students and support workers.
Intuitive, free, multilingual, online concept mapping designed for dyslexic individuals. We have menu translations for Bosnian, BG, Croatian, HU, IT, RO, Serbian, Slovenian, Welsh. Please email if you can supply in other languages. (Needs less than 20 words translated!)
Conferences
BDA Workshop 23/24 Feb and Conference 25-26 Feb - Liverpool
EDA International Conference: Bruges 22-24 April
For further details on the above, contact ian.smythe@ukonline.co.uk