RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

BRAIN GAMES

Processing Speed:

• Blink                       *Qwirkle

• Blurt                        *Spot It

Memory:

• Uno                         *Concentration

• Crazy Eights            *Go Fish

Strategy/Problem Solving/Reasoning:

• Chess                       *Blokus

• Battleship                 *Guess Who

• Mastermind              *Othello

• Jenga                       *Set

• Tangrams                  *Quarto

• What's My Rule?      *Metaforms

Social Cognition:

• Moods

• Emotion Charades

• In general, board games help children learn important social skills such as waiting, turn taking, sharing, how to cope with losing, making conversation, problem solving, compromising, collaborating and being flexible.

WEBSITES

• Understood.org

  
  

• additudemag.com

  
  

• khanacademy.org

  
  

• childmind.org

  
  

• learningally.org (audiobooks)

  
  

• Mavis Beacon Keyboarding Kidz

  
  

• bookshare.org

  
  

• worrywisekids.org

  
  

• childmind.org

  
  

• mindplay.com

  
  

• outschool.com

  
  

• ldonline.org

• interdys.org

• dys-add.com

• dyslexia.yale.edu

• schwablearning.org

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BOOKS

• The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald D. Davis

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck Ph.D.

• Smart But Scattered by Peg Dawson Ed.D. and Richard Guare Ph.D.

• Parenting the Strong Willed Child by Rex Forehand Ph.D. and Nicholas Long Ph.D.

• Creative Schools by Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D.

• David and Goliath by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Dyslexic Advantage by Brock L. Eide MD. MA. and Fernette F. Eide MD

• Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World by Jeffery Freed M.A.T. and Laurie Parsons

• The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan By Ben Foss

• Thinking Differently By David Flink

• Parenting a Struggling Reader by Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moats Ed. D.

• Proust and the Squid by Maryanne Wolf Ph.D.