Resources
Useful contacts, courses and support for people with Specific Learning Difficulties.
Personal Learning Advisors should be able to approach these services in order to get information leaflets that can be held in a dyslexia library.
The RAF does not endorse the following listed companies, but they do provide support and advise for Individuals for Specific Learning Difficulties.
01784 463851
DYXI: A site for dyslexics, written by dyslexics. Use new technology and also a CD ROM passport card enabling dyslexic people to give their details to the person requesting them but not having to fill out lengthy forms.
PLUS: Use new technology and also a CD ROM passport card enabling dyslexic people to give their details to the person requesting them but not having to fill out lengthy forms. Small charge involved:0800 970 6732
World of Dyslexia: Articles about Dyslexia and the experience of being dyslexic.
This charity aims to link you with other individuals who face the same difficulties as you.
Write Away: 0208 964 4225
email: penfriends@writeaway.demon.co.uk
A2Z
For a fee this website gives you access specialists in their local area.
Dyspraxia Foundation
www.embrook.demon.co.uk/dysprax/homepage.htm
01462 454986
List of Dyslexia Sites on the web:
www.surrey.ac.uk/Pyschology/WDNF/sites.html
Experiences of Dyslexia
Computer Fact sheets
Adult support groups
0118 966 8271
Useful Information on dyslexia in all aspects.
IANSYST LTD: 01223 420101
TAG LEARNING: www.taglearning.com
01474 357350
TextHelp: www.texthelp.com
028 94 428105
www.semerc.com www.wordshark.co.uk
Mastering Memory:
BOX42 Special Needs Computing Ltd
po Box 42
Rainhill
Merseyside
L35 4RG
TEL: 0151 426 9988
FAX: 0151 426 9994
Xavier: a commercial arm of the University of Bangor
Concise Oxford Dictionary and Thesaurus on CD-ROM – 7th Edition
Channel 4: Information Booklet on Dyslexia
ISBN 1 85144254 5
0990 44 66 99
H Arkell
ISBN: 0 948612-13-4
ISBN 1 899126 05 8
Barrington Stoke 2000
Old Bag by M Burgess
Stalker by AMasters
0131 315 4933
D. Bartlett & S. Moody
ISBN: 1 86156 172 5
020 73595979
The A-Z of Teaching Reading, Writing and Spelling
B Hornsby, F Shear, J Pool
5th Edition Heinemann
ISBN: 0-435-10423-3
The Dyslexia Handbook
Published by the BDA
ISBN: 1-872653-21-9
0118 966 2677
Making Dyslexia Work for You (£10.99) - NEW
Vicki Goodwin & Bonita Thomson
ISBN 1-84 312-091-7
Visual Dyslexia: The Essential Course
Ian Jordon: An Optician lectures on Visual Dyslexia.
01542 841055
Fulcrum: Dyslexia Awareness Training Courses
IDL Centres:
Indirect Learning for reading and spelling difficulties
01289 387076
www.embrook.demon.co.uk/dysprax/homepage.htm
Information on Free BT 195 calls for people with dyslexia is available here: www.bt.com/World/community/aged_and_disabled/frame4.htm
Government Support: www.employmentservice.gov.uk/english/jobseekers/access%5Fto%5Fwork.asp
Ian Smythe: Editor of the International Book of Dyslexia
Ian.smythe@ukonline.co.uk
Fax: 020 7924 1112
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/wdnf