Special Needs Resources (page 3)

Eliciting web site preferences of people with learning disabilities Abstract A growing body of literature is recognising the value of the World Wide Web as a tool that can be used...

There exists a range of definitions for dyslexia spanning the last century. This review focuses on those definitions from four influential organisations: The British Psychological Soc...

Self-esteem is a complex term, pertaining to the evaluation of the discrepancy between self-image and the ideal self. Research suggests that self-esteem can impose either a positive ...

Read Write Spell programmesare series of structured workbooks accompanied by literacy games. They are designed to improve students' reading, spelling, handwriting and grammar. The...

What is Dyslexia? Dyslexia is a term used to encompass a set of connected learning issues which are affected by a weakness in being able communicate in different ways. ...

It`s my opinion that our 21st Century Education is not a `One Size Fits All` and many young people have become disaffected and lost the joy of learning. As a personal tutor I take ...

Abstract: The need for social inclusion, informed choice and the facilitation of independent living for people with learning disabilities (LD) is being emphasised ever more by go...

Abstract: Much relevant internet-mediated information is inaccessible to people with learning disabilities because of difficulties in navigating the web. This paper reports on the...

Abstract: The Internet may greatly facilitate the provision of acces¬sible information to people with learning disabilities. However, problems of navigation and, therefore, retr...

Why is it that there is such a disparity between individuals when it comes to learning to read? Reading is a cultural and taught activity and its success depends on two important fact...