As part of Dyslexia Awareness Week, we are sharing some Dyslexia focused provisions that are in the online library.
Below are a few items, which may be interesting or helpful to our students:
Reader's Block: A History of Reading Differences by Matthew Rubery
Rubery's insightful and empathetic look at history, film, literature and social media as well as medical case studies sheds new light on the experiences of reading. The book provides detailed examples, that there is no one way of reading but a variety of experiences, each equally valuable and feasable.
This paper includes analysis and information from the London World Blind Center for Dyslexic Children, Isle of White studies, the Bangor Dyslexia Unit, the U.S. report of the National Reading Panel and the creation of the What Works Clearinghouse. The authors provide a strongly researched history of Dyslexia in the UK and US.
This study provides modern insights and shares personal accounts from interviews taken from 12 student nurses with dyslexia from two higher education institutions in the Republic of Ireland. The authors initially undertook this research to provide individual recognition of identity for those living with Dyslexia in contrast to the papers representing only the symptoms of Dyslexia.
The Online Library also provides an assortment of Dyslexia focused and related journals, a few are listed below but more information may be found via both our newspaper search or our publications search on the home page:
Annals of Dyslexia by Orton Dyslexia Society by International Dyslexia Association
Dyslexia by British Dyslexia Association
If you would like more information about using the Online Library’s accessibility resources, which include Dyslexia, please see our accessibility pages below:
Accessibility guidance | The Online Library
Accessibility | The Online Library
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