Developmental Dyslexia

Dr Michael Thomson is Principal of East Court, an internationally acclaimed specialist school for dyslexia, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Applied Child Psychology at the University of Kent. He is also an executive editor of Dyslexia, the journal of the British Dyslexia Association, an Associate of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Educational Psychologist and a Fellow of the International Academy for Research into Learning Difficulties.

• Part 1. Introduction.Barriers to Learning.The Concept of developmental Dyslexia.Emotional Correlates of Dyslexia.Sex Differences.Subtypes of Dyslexia.Genetic Aspects.Offical Attitudes to Dyslexia in The UK.Part 2.Case Histories.Part 3.Etiology.Neurological Perspective.Cognitive perspective.Part 4.Dyslexia as a Phenomenon of Written Language.Some Features of Written Language.Models of The Written Language Process.Reading and spelling Behaviour.Written Language and Dyslexia - a Synthesis.Part 5.Assessment, "background" Factors.Assessment of Intelligence.Attainments.Perceptual.Motor and Memory Skills.Screening Procedures.Sample Reports.Part 6.Remediation - Evaluations and Assessment.The Relationship Between Assessment and Remediation.Evaluating Remediation.Part 7.Remediation - Principles and techniques.General Principles of Remediation.Structured Written Language programmes.Multi-sensory Teaching.Matching Task to Learner.Phonetic teaching.Essay Writing.The Older Dyslexic.Computer-assisted Learning and word Processing.Role of The Parent in Remediation.