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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
WEBSITES
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Dyslexia Initiative- Plethora of information about dyslexia
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simulations showing you what it is like to have problems with decoding and recognizing phonemes, and with memory, recall, and understanding.
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Mindshift -41 page PDF with information about dyslexia
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Structured Literacy - explanation of why structured literacy is the most effective approach when teaching language based differences
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https://allkindsofminds.org/parent-toolkit/ -Parent Toolkit for understanding a variety of differences
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https://www.understood.org/en/articles/through-your-childs-eyes
Simulations of learning differences
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BOOKS:
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The Gift of Dyslexia
by Ronald D. Davis
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Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
by Carol S. Dweck Ph.D.
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Smart But Scattered
by Peg Dawson Ed.D. and Richard Guare Ph.D.
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Parenting the Strong Willed Child by Rex Forehand Ph.D. and Nicholas Long Ph.D
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Creative Schools
by Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D.
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David and Goliath
by Malcolm Gladwell
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The Dyslexic Advantage by Brock L. Eide MD. MA. and Fernette F. Eide MD
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Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World
by Jeffery Freed M.A.T. and Laurie Parsons
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The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan By Ben Foss
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Thinking Differently
By David Flink
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Parenting a Struggling Reader
by Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moats Ed. D.
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Proust and the Squid
by Maryanne Wolf Ph.D.
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Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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Xtraordinary People by Kate Griggs
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Aaron Slater, Illustrator by Andrea Beaty
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Hank Books by Henry Winkler
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Cartwheels by Tracy Peterson
BRAIN GAMES
Words:
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Scrabble *Bananagrams
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Boggle *Apples to Apple
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Scattergories *Headbanz
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Mad Libs *Balderdash
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Story Cubes
Math/Number Sense:
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Dominoes *Yahtzee
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War- with cards *Prime Climb
Processing Speed:
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Blink *Qwirkle
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Blurt *Spot It
Memory:
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Uno *Concentration
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Crazy Eights *Go Fish
Strategy/Problem Solving/Reasoning:
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Chess *Blokus
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Battleship *Guess Who
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Mastermind *Othello
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Jenga *Set
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Gobblet Gobblers. *Gobblet
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Tangrams *Quarto
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What's My Rule? *Metaforms
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Clue
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ONLINE Smart Games- SET, Sudoku, Tetravex, Memory
Social Cognition:
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Moods
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Emotion Charades
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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.
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