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RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

WEBSITES

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BOOKS:

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  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success 

    by Carol S. Dweck Ph.D.

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    When the Brain Can’t Hear: Unraveling the Mystery of Auditory Processing Disorder

    by Teri James Bellis.

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  • 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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  • Overcoming Dyslexia​

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  • Hank Books by Henry Winkler

  • Cartwheels by Tracy Peterson 

Movies 

Characters with Dyslexia

  • True Spirit -True story about an Australian girl who sails around the world.

  • Rescued by Ruby- True story

  • Percy Jackson-written by Rick Riordan for his son who is dyslexic and has ADHD

  • Taare Zameen Par/ Like Stars of Earth-  Movie about a dyslexic child in India

  • Ponysitter's Club- One of the characters is dyslexic and her friends help her when she struggles.

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.

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