houseofkids&pets Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 Disclaimer:001_smile:: I have not read this book! I just wanted to pass along info from Betsy, the moderator of the yahoo group Heart of Reading. She recommended this resource and I am definitely interested in taking a look!http://amazon.com/Essentials-Dyslexia-Assessment-Intervention-Psychological/dp/0470927607 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokyomarie Posted January 16, 2012 Share Posted January 16, 2012 (edited) Disclaimer:001_smile:: I have not read this book! I just wanted to pass along info from Betsy, the moderator of the yahoo group Heart of Reading. She recommended this resource and I am definitely interested in taking a look!http://amazon.com/Essentials-Dyslexia-Assessment-Intervention-Psychological/dp/0470927607 I *just* finished reading this book, which was just released a couple of months ago or so. It is very, very good. Though written for professionals, the writing is very clear and precise. It is accompanied by numerous tables & charts with lists- symptoms, tests, interventions. It covered a wide range of topics from the research on genetics, to issues in assessment, and effective instruction. It has a discussion on orthographic coding which I found particularly helpful, because it deals with the more visual aspects of reading. Here is a sentence from that section that defines orthographic awareness: "Orthographic awareness is awareness of how print works and how it looks- the visual representation of language (the letters and letter patterns that are used to represent the words in print). In addition to letters and words, orthography also includes numerals and punctuation marks." It discusses the "deep" orthography of English, which makes decoding and encoding more difficult than in a language where there is more nearly 1-to-1 phoneme-grapheme correspondence. Edited January 16, 2012 by Tokyomarie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houseofkids&pets Posted January 16, 2012 Author Share Posted January 16, 2012 Thanks for the comments! It would probably help if I actually read a book before I recommended it;). Unfortunately, my "to be read" pile keeps growing and I didn't know when I would get to this one. It is also not available at our library yet. Maybe I will have to take the plunge and order it from amazon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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