Dyslexia - resources for professionals

Help and tools for teachers

• Dyslexia: How teachers can help
• Ways to help with maths
• Ways to help with reading
• Ways to help with spelling
• Dyslexia - information for teachers
• Guide for learning about dyslexia
• Word sounds knowledge
• Word sounds - short term memory test
• Breaking down syllables in a known word
• Transition from primary to secondary school
• What works for children and young people with literacy difficulties

Addressing Dyslexia Toolkit - This free resource provides information for teachers, schools and local authorities on inclusive practice, literacy difficulties and dyslexia. It guides users through a child-centred, collaborative process of identification, assessment, support and monitoring.

Dyslexia Unwrapped was developed by Dyslexia Scotland with funding from the Scottish Government.
Dyslexia Unwrapped is a separately designed, interactive, age appropriate Dyslexia Scotland website for dyslexic young people, maximising the use of graphics, audio and videos to make it dyslexia-friendly. We listened closely to the views of young people with dyslexia when developing the site, in order to make it their own, dyslexia-friendly online space.

Reading and Writing circles support teachers’ gain an understanding of how the literacy skills have developed for the child or young person who they are working with. The circles can be used in primary and secondary sectors and may be beneficial EAL and adults.

Introduction to dyslexia and inclusive practice - Free online modules

In response to Recommendations 1 and 2, Education Scotland, Dyslexia Scotland and the Scottish Government collaborated with partners to develop three free incremental online modules with the support of The Open University – OpenLearn Create team. The modules aim to provide education practitioners and local authority staff with an awareness of dyslexia and inclusive practice.

• Module 1: 'Introduction to Dyslexia and Inclusive Practice'
• Module 2: 'Supporting Dyslexia, Inclusive Practice and Literacy'
• Module 3: 'Dyslexia: Identification and Support'

The free online modules have been developed to support General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS) Professional Standards, Professional Update and individual applications for Professional Recognition.

Visual

• Visual processing task
• Dyslexia and visual issues

Toolkit

• Pathway overview for the identification and support of literacy difficulties and dyslexia
• Guidelines for assessment
• Steps to ensuring the needs of a child are met

Checklists and forms

• Form 3B Group / personal plan
• Form 2 Staged Process
• Pupil checklist for dyslexia