Dyslexia-Friendly Further and Higher Education
- Barbara Pavey - Lecturer in Higher Education, Training Dyslexia Specialists in the North of England
- Margaret Meehan - Coordinator of Specialist Tuition at Swansea University
- Alan Waugh - Programme Area Manager for Additional Support at City College, Coventry
Looking at how dyslexia impacts on learning, the authors suggest ways to improve the learning environment and explain how to help students develop the basic skills that will help them to make the transition from study to employment. Building on the latest research and understanding of dyslexia, they also consider overlapping characteristics, emotional and social issues and funding.
The book includes:
- visual chapter summaries
- case studies drawn from practice
- ideas for dyslexia-friendly written work, and lab and bench work
- international perspectives
- a selection of resources
- model lesson plans and useful checklists
This is essential reading not only for those studying dyslexia-focused programmes at Master's level, but also for mainstream practitioners wishing to improve their dyslexia knowledge and practice, and an ideal resource for professionals working in a school, college, university or adult setting, or delivering training and consultancy in this field.
Barbara Pavey is a Senior Lecturer in Education at York St John University.
Margaret Meehan is the Dyslexia Coordinator at Swansea University.
Alan Waugh is Programme Area Manager for Additional Support at City College, Coventry.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, it was very well written, with a vast amount of very useful information for anyone who works with, or teaches student who have dyslexia.
I loved the ICT pointers and references that were used throughout, these will be really useful pointers to resources for practitioners.
I will be recommending that both first year and second year Cert Ed / PGCE students read this text when considering planning lessons, resources and activities.
Dyslexia-Friendly Further and Higher Education, Barbara Pavey I had included a section on FE/HE in my course but decided to explore the issues more because of this book.
Has changed the way I think and given me new directions for research: a key text for lecturers.
This text is intended to support students working on inclusion units who are based in Fe.
This book may be of some general supplemental interest for mentorship students on the course - who once qualified will teach and assess higher education student nurses with dydlexia (during their placements). However, as it does not specifically address the issues pertaining to nursing students during NHS placements it is not classified as essential or recommended reading for the mentorship course. I enjoyed reading the book - thank you.
This book is particularly interesting for the course and additional reading to support the lectures on Dyslexia. Often, students realise that they are dyslexic themselves after taking a module on SpLD! This book would be useful for them as a study skills support book for dyslexics in HE.
Excellent chapters - 3 & 7.
Very practitioner friendly.
Informative and easy to read a must have book for anyone working in HE
Supplemental reading for existing or new trainee teachers in supporting their learners with Dyslexia
