Parent Resources
Parent/Guardian Support Groups:
Parent meetings are scheduled for the first Thursday of every other month. Parents meet at Miller College from 7:00 – 8:00 to learn more about dyslexia / reading difficulties and to discuss issues facing their children. Parents share strategies they have used that have been successful. Representatives from the center provide support to the parents.
Lending Library
The following is a list of books that are available for parents to check out:
The Motivation Breakthrough: Turning on the Tuned-Out Child by Richard Lavoie
Straight Talk About Reading by Susan Hall and Louisa Moats
The Orton Emeritus Series - A set of 17 pamphlets from the International Dyslexia Association
Proust and the Squid- The Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz
Raising Lifelong Learners by Lucy Calkins
Learning to Learn by Carolyn Oliver and Rosemary F. Bowler
Basic Facts About Dyslexia and Other Reading Problems by Louise Cook Moats
Web sites about dyslexia:
Barton Reading: www.bartonreading.com
Bright Solutions for Dyslexia: www.BrightSolutions.us
The International Dyslexia Association: www.interdys.org
Charles Schwab: www.schwablearning.org
National Institute of Health: www.nichd.nih.gov
Learning Disabilities Assoc: www.ldanatl.org
LD On Line: www.ldonline.org
Dyslexia Center: www.dyslexiacenter.org
Dyslexia Teacher: www.dyslexia-teacher.com
National Center for Learning Disabilities: www.nicd.org
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC): www.cec.sped.org
Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic: www.rfbd.org
National Institute for Child Health and Human Development (NCHD): www.nichd.nih.gov
Children of the Code: www.childrenofthecode.org
For children:
www.spark.top.org
Can also access from the Schwab page
Literacy Web Sites
www.rif.org
www.readingrockets.org
www.rif.org/leadingtoreading/en/
www.littleonesreadingresource.com
www.pbs.kids.org
www.pbs.kids.org/readingrainbow
www.childrenliteracy.com/babies.html
www.randomhouse.com/kids/
www.starfall.com
www.brainconnection.com
www.enchantedlearning.com (do not need to subscribe)
http://rbeaudoin333.homestead.com
Battle Creek: Community Literacy Collaborative www.itstartswithreading.org (They have links to other local sites.)
|
