
RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
BRAIN GAMES
Words:
Scrabble *Bananagrams
Boggle *Apples to Apple
Scattergories. *Headbanz
Mad Libs. *Balderdash
Story Cubes
Math/Number Sense:
Dominoes. *Yahtzee
War- with cards. *Prime Climb
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
Gobblet Gobblers. *Gobblet
Tangrams *Quarto
What's My Rule? *Metaforms
Clue
ONLINE Smart Games- SET, Sudoku, Tetravex, Memory
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
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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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CStructured Literacy - explanation of why structured literacy is the most effective approach when teaching language based differences
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- Practical, meaningful, effective advice and guidance
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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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learningally.org (audiobooks)
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Mavis Beacon Keyboarding Kidz
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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
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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
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Right Brained Children in a Left Brained World
by Jeffery Freed M.A.T. and Laurie Parsons
The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan By Ben Foss
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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.
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
Cartwheels by Tracy Peterson