Specific learning difficulties and language teaching

Resources:

Dyslexia and Foreign Language Teaching MOOC, FutureLearn with Lancaster University

BBC4 documentary with Laverne Antrobus - 'OU on the BBC: Growing Children - Dyslexia - OpenLearn - Open University'

Bright Solutions for Dyslexia

Autism & Educational Settings - The Learning Scientists

Bibliography:

Berninger, V. W., & Wolf, B. J. (2009). Teaching students with dyslexia and dysgraphia: Lessons from teaching and science. Paul H Brookes Publishing.

Middlebrook, R. D. (n.d.) 'The Text Mapping Project'. Available at: http://www.textmapping.org/overview.html

Nijakowska, J., Tsagari, D., and Spanoudis, G. (2018) 'English as a foreign language teacher training needs and perceived preparedness to include dyslexic learners: The case of Greece, Cyprus, and Poland', Dyslexia, 24, 4, (357-379).

Schneider, E., and Crombie, M. (2003) Dyslexia and Foreign Langauge Learning. British Dyslexia Association. Oxford: David Fulton Publishers.

Wallbank, A.J. (2018). Academic Writing and Dyslexia: A Visual Guide to Writing at University (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315265346