Dyslexia
A Practitioner's Handbook
Gavin Reid
This is a new and revised
edition of the popular Dyslexia: A Practitioner’s Handbook. Gavin
Reid says in his introduction to this third edition that he hopes this
book will be used to provide information to teachers and, among other
things, to be used as a source of support and encouragement to parents. I
hope he succeeds, and that this book is widely available to anyone
training in the area of dyslexia, and also for those in charge of funding
for special needs.
The book starts by pointing
out that according to the British Psychological Society a working-party
report on dyslexia pointed to ten hypotheses that can be associated with
dyslexia. A statistic that shows the size and complexity of ‘understanding
dyslexia.’.
There are chapters on the
acquisition of literacy and reading development, spelling, writing and
dyslexia, assessments, and teaching approaches. I cannot begin to list all
the useful and interesting information covered in Gavin Reid’s book, and
although much of it may be of special interest to those working in the
field, any parent who wants to be truly informed would be advised at least
to look at some of the strategies and sources of support in the book.
There is a comprehensive reading list, and, again for the professional, an
exhaustive bibliography of recently published work.
There is an interesting
section on parental support, and frequently asked questions, such as ‘How
much homework should the child with dyslexia undertake?’, are discussed.
Unfortunately the original
price of this book was likely to have made it beyond the pocket of most
parents, but fortunately it is now available in paperback at a reasonable
price.
Published by Wiley
paperback
 £19.99
 $45.00
ISBN: 0470848510
available
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Review published 17 April 2003 © Jill
Curtis 2003
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