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WEBSITES
www.rbnc.org-Rush Neurobehavioral Center's providing workshops and information on executive function skills building
www.dyslexiahelp.umich.edu 
www.everyonereadingillinois.org
- Improving lives of people of all ages with dyslexia with information and support 
www.dyslexia.yale.edu - Increasing the awareness of dyslexia and bringing out the intellectual and creative strengths of people with dyslexia
www.learningally.org - Enabling schools to support struggling readers and building a strong foundation for engaged learners to achieve regardless of their learning difference
www.wilsonlanguage.com - Empowering individual educators, schools, and districts to achieve literacy of all students, specifically those with dyslexia
www.understood.org - Connecting people facing challenges like ADHD and dyslexia while providing them the support that is needed
www.dagnaperville.com - Providing detailed information and local resources regarding dyslexia
www.dyslexia.ida.org-Effective reading instruction for dyslexics fact sheet
www.dyslexicadvantage.org
www.interdys.org-International Dyslexia Association
www.1in5.learningally.org-Learning Ally Student Initiative
www.dyslexiabuddynetwork.com
The Reading League of Illinois 
www.ldonline.org
www.readingrockets.com
www.ncld.org-The National Center for learning disabilities 
www.isbe.net/Documents/Parent-Guide-Special-Ed-Aug20.pdf-free parent guide to special education services, laws, functions,  and resources from the Illinois State Board of Education website 


BOOKS:
Overcoming Dyslexia by Dr. Sally Shaywitz
The Dyslexic Advantage by Eide, Eide and Costanzo
Parenting a Struggling Reader-Susan Hall and Louisa Moats
From Emotions to Advocacy and Special Education Law-www.wrightslaw.com
Answer about Distraction by E. Hallowell
Taking Charge of ADHD by R. Barkely
Straight Talk about Reading by Susan Hall and Louisa Moats
Parenting a Struggling Reader by Susan Hall and Louia Moats
The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan by Benn Foss
Reader, Com Home by Maryanne Wolf
Proust and the Squid-th Story and Science of the Reading Brain by Maryanne Wolf
"If only I would have known..." -series by Faith Borkowsky
Failing Students or Failing Schools? - A Parents's Guide to Reading Instruction and Intervention by Faith Borkowsky
A Guide to Special Education Advocacy, What Parents, Clinicians, and Advocates Need to Know by Matt Cohen

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Executive Function
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Books for preteens and teens:
  • Learning to Plan and Be Organized by Kathleen Nadeau, PhD
  • Learning to Slow Down and Pay Attention by Kathleen Nadeau, PhD and Ellen B. Dixon, PhD
  • The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens: Help for Unprepared, Late, and Scattered Teens by Sharon A. Hansen
Books for parents and adults:
  • Smart but Scattered: The Revolutionary “Executive Skills” Approach to Helping Kids Reach Their Potential by Peg Dawson, EdD and Richard Guare, PhD
  • Smart but Scattered Teens: The “Executive Skills” Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential by Richard Guare, PhD, Peg Dawson, EdD, and Colin Guare
  • Executive Skills in Children and Adolescents, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Assessment and Intervention by Peg Dawson, EdD and Richard Guare, PhD
  • NOTE:Dawson and Guare propose a two-pronged approach to students with EF issues
    • 1) Consider the environment and what can be changed externally to support the student.
    • 2) Provide explicit instruction. 
  • The Smart but Scattered Guide to Success: How to Use Your Brain’s Executive Skills to Keep Up, Stay Calm, and Get Organized at Work and at Home by Peg Dawson, EdD and Richard Guare, PhD
  • Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A Parents’ Guide to Helping Children with Executive Functioning by Joyce Cooper-Kahn, PhD and Laurie Dietzel, PhD
  • Executive Functions: What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Evolved by Russell A. Barkley

Auditory Processing:
www.hearbuilder.com-low cost app with activities to develop phonologic awareness, memory, sequencing and direction following 


Dyslexia and alternative therapies, including vision therapy: 
Statement by the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding vision therapy
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/124/2/837/72351/Learning-Disabilities-Dyslexia-and-Vision?autologincheck=redirected


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    • Close Reading + Analytical Writing
    • Test Prep
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    • College Support
    • Learning Alternatives
    • At-Home + Remote Learning Support
    • Young Learners
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