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Dyslexia and Literacy Difficulties

 
 
 
Dyslexia is a learning difficulty that primarily affects the skills involved in accurate and fluent word reading and spelling. Many children with dyslexia and literacy difficulties can be helped, and there are a number of programs and strategies that can successfully help improve reading and writing skills. Some adults acquire reading and spelling difficulties following a brain injury or stroke – there are also strategies and modern technology to help them. Click on the links below to find out more.

 

What Works for Children with Literacy Difficulties?
The Effectiveness of Intervention Schemes by Greg Brooks from the University of Sheffield

 

Reading and Writing strategies following brain injury or stroke
There a number of simple strategies that you can use to make reading and writing easier following stroke or brain injury.

 

Reading and Writing strategies 
There a number of simple strategies that you can use to make reading and writing easier.

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