Can I Tell You About Dyslexia?: A Guide for Friends, Family and Professionals

Meet Zoe - a young girl with dyslexia. Zoe invites readers to learn about dyslexia from her perspective. She helps readers to understand the challenges faced by a child with dyslexia, explaining what dyslexia is and how it affects her at home and at school. Zoe describes exactly why she finds reading, writing and words so difficult, and how other people can help her in these areas.

This illustrated book is ideally suited for readers aged 7 and upwards, and will be an excellent way to start a discussion about dyslexia, in the classroom or at home.

The "Can I tell you about...?" series offers simple introductions to a range of limiting conditions. Friendly characters invite readers to learn about their experiences of living with a particular condition and how they would like to be helped and supported. These books serve as excellent starting points for family and classroom discussions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

1. Introducing Zoe, who has dyslexia.
2. Learning the alphabet.
3. Understanding the sounds in words.
4. Reading new words.
5. Remembering words.
6. Reading slowly.
7. What reading is like for me.
8. Spelling.
9. Writing down my thoughts.
10. Mathematics.
11. Following directions.
12. What I'm good at.
13. Finding out I had dyslexia.
14. How teachers can help.
15. How parents can help.
16. Possible early signs of dyslexia.
17. Some important ideas to know.

Further reading.

International websites.

"This inspirational book is a great resource for children, parents, and teachers alike. Written from a child's perspective, it explains a complicated topic in a simple manner and provides an accurate overview of the most common symptoms of dyslexia (including strengths), an insightful account of how it feels to have dyslexia, and ways that teachers and parents can provide appropriate emotional and instructional supports."
- Nancy Mather, Ph.D., Professor of Special Education, University of Arizona