Publications
Suggested reading for parents
Dyslexia: A parents guide to dyslexia, dyspraxia and other learning difficulties
This book offers practical tips for parents to help overcome their child’s learning difficulty. The book also shows parents how to develop a successful approach to assessing and subsequently managing their child’s difficulties.
The Secret Life of the Dyslexic Child
This book describes how the dyslexic child thinks, how they feels and how they can succeed.
Dyslexia: A Parents’ Survival Guide
An invaluable resource.
Suggested reading for children
Totem Series
The Totem Series is an exciting, fresh start for older pupils, helping build up their reading skills from CVC (consonant/vowel/consonant) level. This highly-structured, cumulative series includes 12 books which cover all the essential phonics foundations that a ‘catch-up’ reader will need. Workbooks are available to reinforce the areas covered. The series is designed to appeal to older reluctant readers with exciting and motivating stories and illustrations, and builds up towards the following ‘Talisman Series’.
Talisman Series (Interest Age 8-14)
The Talisman Series follows on from the Totem Series and is ideal for older readers who have gaps in their phonic knowledge. The Talisman Series of 10 books introduces more alternative spellings for the vowel sounds: ‘ae’, ‘ee’, ‘oe’, ‘er’, ‘ow/oi’, ‘oo’, ‘ie’, ‘or’, ‘air’ and ‘ar’, with accompanying workbooks to reinforce spelling patterns.
PERCY JACKSON SERIES (11 – 13 year olds)
Percy Jackson is dyslexia and has ADHD – Half Boy, Half God, All Hero!
THE RED PYRAMID
- If a child enjoyed the Percy Jackson series
WARRIOR CATS SERIES
- For an animal loving fluent reader 9-12 years old
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID SERIES
- Novels in cartoon form with nice bite-sized chunks of text – good for 10-12 year olds
RAPID READER SERIES
Cutting-edge reading books that are the envy of the rest of the class, with a related true-life and fictional story for each title.
Captivating stories, fantastic non-fiction and jokes fill the 112 age-appropriate reading books for NC P8 to NC Level 2. The special dyslexia-friendly font and chunked text really gives children extra support.
NAXOS AUDIO TAPES
Fabulous CDs of classic tales, like King Arthur, Robin Hood, The Prince and the pauper, plus Greek and Norse myths, also factual CDs on famous people in history, great explorers and famous scientists.
Melanie, who has brought her son and daughter to the DTC
