Summary
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This book is about raising standards in literacy for children with dyslexia by putting the child at the centre of everything you do, focusing on wellbeing, and recognising the role that adults have to play in ensuring all children reach their potential. Concentrating on children in primary schools and early years settings the book looks at: • Early intervention • Pupil voice • Working as a team • New literacies • Child-centred identification, assessment and provision • Challenges for the inclusive school. Suitable for all those working with children with dyslexia this book contains strategies that can be easily adopted to academically and emotionally benefit the children you are working with.
Meeting the Needs of Children with Dyslexia and Developmental Literacy Difficulties: Holistic Approaches
Meeting the Needs of Children with Dyslexia and Developmental Literacy Difficulties: Holistic Approaches
Chapter aims
- To explore the nature of emotional intelligence and its relevance to children experiencing difficulties with the acquisition of literacy.
- To examine how developing emotional intelligence can impact positively upon children with dyslexia and developmental literacy difficulties.
- To explore the importance of self-efficacy and its relevance to children with dyslexia and developmental literacy difficulties.
Introduction
A century ago the celebrated author D.H. Lawrence (1915, p. 24) in addressing the emotional responses experienced by children failing with literacy, wrote as follows:
Then he reddened furiously, felt his bowels sink with shame, scratched out what he had written, made an agonised effort to think of ...
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