Including Readers with Special Needs
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http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/ed344190.html
Learning Disabilities, Dyslexia, and Vision: A Subject Review
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http://www.aap.org/policy/re9825.html
Learning To Read/Reading To Learn Campaign: Helping Children with Learning Disabilities to Succeed
The National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators
These materials highlight reading strategies that will benefit all children and emphasize the skills children with learning disabilities must develop in order to become good readers. The information equips educators with the strategies they need in order to avoid reading problems before they begin and to correct those that exist.
http://idea.uoregon.edu/~ncite/programs/read.html
Reading and Learning Disabilities
National Information Center for Children and Youth with Disabilities (NICHCY) Briefing Paper
This paper describes some of the most common learning disabilities that can cause reading problems and suggests appropriate organizations that can provide assistance.
http://www.nichcy.org/pubs/factshe/fs17txt.htm
Reading Methods and Learning Disabilities
LDA Newsbriefs, Education Committee, Learning Disabilities Association of America
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http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/
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Report on Learning Disabilities Research
Reid Lyon
This article is adapted from testimony given by Dr. Reid Lyon before the Committe on Education and the Workforce in the U.S. House of Representatives on July 10, 1997
http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/
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