Special Help For Special Children |
DYSLEXIC CHILDREN - Identifying and helping them |
Identifying Children with Learning Difficulties |
A Practical Guide |
£2.50 |
Dyxlexia: towards a better understanding:
a guide for parents, teachers and children. |
This book has an original format.
Its instruction and its final section are concerned with practical advice and guidance. The central and longest section is printed in large and bold type and contains many simple and amusing illustrations.
The book is 'amusing, readable and informative and reassuring to the young sufferer'
Times Educational Supplement |
£4.00 |
Dyslexia: A pattern of Strenghts and Weaknesses. |
This is a unique study of 160 clinical cases of dyslexia. It outlines professional methods of identifying the problem and highlights the kind of strengths or talents often displayed by dyslexic individuals. Problems faced by parents of dyslexic children in relation to schools and local education authorities are described in detail and guidance is offered on the subject. |
£4.00 |
Spot the Dyslexic Child: a guide for parents and teachers. |
Deals with the label 'dyslexia' and lists common characteristics of children with reading difficulties and spelling difficulties. |
£2.00 |
Spelling Check-List |
An easy to handle pocket-size booklet containing a list of major words with which dyslexic individuals experience difficulties. The list is presented in alphabetical order and spaces are available for the insertion of extra words. |
£3.50 |
Maths Words |
An easy to handle pocket-size booklet containing a comprehensive list of mathematical words with which dyslexic individuals experience difficulty. The list is presented in alphabetical order. |
£3.50 |
Signposts to Literacy |
A short booklet of practical suggestions for helping dyslexic children. |
£2.00 |
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Teaching Able Children: a handbook of practical suggestions |
This book contains 'a number of good ideas for the classroom which include word games, comprehension tests and group activities'.
Daily Telegraph
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£5.00 |
Children of High Ability: finding and helping them; a handbook for teachers |
This book 'tackles the difficulties a teacher faces and discusses such subjects as segregation and integration'.
The Guardian |
£4.00 |
The North Warwickshire Project: an approach to identifying and providing for children of high ability. |
'The report could cause some heart seaching in the comprehensives'.
The Guardian |
£4.00 |
Helping Children of High Intelligence: a handbook for parents. |
'A pragmatic, rather than dogmatic approach'.
Educational Guardian |
£3.00 |
Helping Mathematically Able Children: a practical guide to resources. |
'A useful and informative booklet which helps the teacher to provide challenging activities for mathematically able children'.
Times Educational Supplement |
£4.00 |
Discovering Leadership and Popularity in the Classroom: a sociametric aproach for teachers |
£3.00 |
Advanced Project Guide: Conservation of Nature |
£3.00 |
Working alone: The Child's Guide to Independent Study |
£2.00 |
Spot the Gifted Child: a guide for parents and teachers |
£2.30 |
The Identification of Fast Learners |
£2.50 |
Calculating Under-achievement 7 to 13 years: a guide for teachers (2 copies) |
£1.50 |
FULL PACK OF ELEVEN ITEMS |
£30.00 |
DEVELOPING THINKING SKILLS |
Comprehensive Teaching 
Pack of Four Books |
'Think Creatively', 'Challenge and Stretch',
'Think Logically' and 'Think Critically' .
Offers a wide range of exercises, activities and projects designed to foster and develop thinking strategies in the classroom. The activities can be adapted to a wide range of age groups
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£18.00 |
Single Book Items |
choose any from four books shown above |
£5.00 each |
HELPING THE CHILD WITH ADHD (Attention Deficit / Hyperactvity Disorder) |
This practical guide covers in detail the symptoms and causes of ADHD. 
It discusses the subject of the use of drugs for these children and also the relationship of diet to the condition.
A whole section is devoted to practical suggestions for helping the child at school.
A check-list for ADHD children is included as well as a list of useful references. |
£5.00 |
HELPING LEFT-HANDED CHILDREN |
LEFTY: 
A story of left-handedness:
a practical guide for parents, teachers and children. |
This book is written in a way which will not only help a child to understand the condition but may also encourage him to enjoy it. As he discovers that the difference is not unique to him but shared by many others, so his interest grows and he becomes reassured. This book is written in large print with many illustrations to enable young children to read it and understand it for themselves. |
£4.50 |
Learning to Write with the Left Hand:
a practical guide for parents and teachers |
This book underlines the importance of starting a left-handed child in the correct way of writing and offers clear guidance on the subject. |
£4.50 |
Teaching Left-Handed Writers |
A leaflet offering advice and illustrations on posture and pencil grip for left-handers. |
£1.00 |
ACCESSORIES: |
Pencil grips |
These grips are specifically made to encourage the child to develop an effective tripod grip for writing.
5 stetro grips: £3.50
6 triangular grips £3.50
4 moulded triangular grips £3.50
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Left-Handed Pencil Sharpener |
The blade is specifically positioned to help the left-handed child. |
£3.50 |
Three-sided pencil |
This encourages the development of an efficient grip. |
Three for £2.00 |
Junior Non Stick Left-Handed Scissors |
This attractive and safe instrument is especially devised for left-handed children.
It comes in two sizes:
41/2" - £3.50
6" - £3.80
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12" Left-Handed Ruler in Perspex |
£3.60 |
6" Left-Handed Ruler in Perspex |
£2.50 |
Pelikano Left-Handed Pen |
This specially devised cartridge pen has a groove to keep fingers away from the inky nib, and a nib which enables the left-handed to achieve smooth writing. |
£8.00 |
Lefty Scholar Pack |
An ideal present for a left-handed child.
The pack is presented on stiff coloured card inside a document wallet. It contains the famous German Pelikano Cartridge Pen for left-handers, a pair of non-stick 6"left-handed scissors, a left-handed ruler, a pencil sharpener and three kinds of fix-on pencil grips. There is also a copy of the book 'Lefty': a story of left-handedness'. |
£19.50 |
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