General Resources - Literacy Care

The following resources and information are available to help you on your journey with literacy and learning challenges.

Books:

The following are some good books we recommend to read:

Response to Intervention: A Framework for Reading Educators; Douglas Fuchs, Lynn Fuchs, Sharon Vaughen
The Literacy Dictionary; Theodore Harris, Richard E Hodges
The Annals of Dyslexia: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the International Dyslexia Association
The Human Side of Dyslexia; Shirley Kurnoff
Beginning to Read; Marilyn Jager Adams
How to Teach Your Dyslexic Child to Read; Bernice H Baumer
What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction; Alan E Farstrup, S Jay Samuels
The Learning Brain; Torkel Klingberg
Development Disorders of Language, Learning and Cognition; Charles Hulme, Margaret J Snowling
The Brain’s Way of Healing; Norman Doidge
Dysxlexia: A Practitioner’s Handbook (4th Edition); Gavin Reid
Helping Children Overcome Learning Difficulties; Jerome Rosner
The Australian Dyslexia Learning Difference Handbook; edited by Jodi Clements
Overcoming Dyslexia; Sally Shaywitz

Literacy Care chooses to use resources from SMARTKIDS Australia

Child Development Network: a Brisbane based network of private medical, psychology and educational professionals
Cogmed: Working memory training
Reading Rockets: Strategies, lessons, activities and ideas designed to help young children learn to read
LD Online: The educator’s guide to learning disabilities and ADHD
NCLD: National Centre for Learning Disabilities

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Information on Dyslexia.

What is SSS and how does it relate to Dyslexia and Reading?