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PREVENTING ACADEMIC FAILURE (US)
This is the name of an Orton based multisensory reading, spelling and handwriting teaching program better known as PAF. Its authors are Phyllis Bertin and Eileen Periman. Karen Einhorn can attest to the effectiveness of this teaching method. She has used this approach over a 12 -year period and has found it a very effective way to teach dyslexic students. The PAF program is widely known in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. For further information visit this web site. William Ferguson.(Comments/reviews welcome)

THE DYSLEXIA RESOURCE (UK)
A resource pack by Marion Walker for tutors of adults and children with specific learning difficulties. Used in schools, prisons and Further and Higher Ed centers in the UK: The Dyslexia Resource (Comments/reviews welcome)

DYSLEXIA PRODUCTS
Including the Visual Tracking Magnifier, the VTM Line Reader and the Optim-eyes Task Lamp: Dyslexia Products (Comments/reviews welcome)

SPELLZONE
Online spelling course designed for the older dyslexic. The age range is from teenager to adult. It is not a basic program, for the course assumes the students will have a reading age of about 9. It is aimed at the mild dyslexic and students with more serious problems who have followed multi-sensory programs and need help with residual difficulties. Spellzone caters for British and American spellings. It is a subscription website but the fee is very small somewhere around US$32 / 20BPS. There is an informative spelling tips section which is free. The web site is professionally done and the author, Shireen Shuster, has spent 2 years writing the course. Shireen is the author of ‘Stile Dyslexia’ a recommended spelling book by the U.K Dyslexia Institute. (William Ferguson) Spellzone (Comments/reviews welcome)

LINDAMOOD PHONEME SEQUENCING PROGRAM (US)
- stimulates phonemic awareness. Individuals become aware of the mouth actions which produce speech sounds. This awareness becomes the means of verifying sounds within words and enables individuals to become self-correcting in reading, spelling, and speech. Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program.(Comments/reviews welcome)

LACEWING MULTIMEDIA
- educational resources for 7-13 year old dyslexic children, using colorful and orginal stories and poems which reinforce the teaching points. The website also features fully illustrated children's fiction with sample pages which can be downloaded. Lacewing Multimedia (Comments/reviews welcome)

LEARNING STAIRCASE
- Ros Lugg is a specialist teacher and assessor, specializing in learning disabilities (including dyslexia). She and several colleagues set up a resource company, Learning Staircase, to provide resources and support for both children and adults. The resources are designed to be used by specialist teachers, speech/language therapists, tutors, or parents who wish to work with their own children. Most of the materials are game-based and detailed instructions are provided. The resources concentrate on developing the pre-literacy and early literacy skills and there is a teaching manual which can teach parents how to teach alphabet knowledge and spelling and reading skills. Individual advice is available by e-mail. The Learning Staircase also retails leading international software for literacy and numeracy. Ros’s company are particularly proud that many New Zealand schools, speech language therapists, SPELD tutors and parents are now using these materials with great success. (Comments/reviews welcome)

WORD CONSTRUCTION SET (NZ)
- A phonics word-builder where students hear, see, construct, create and work with 7000 phonic parts to construct the Seven Buildings of the Word World: consonants, vowels, endings, homophones, compounds, and Latin roots and prefixes. Natural speech, animation and graphics help reinforce in-depth phonics awareness in word-building and spelling. There are special areas for learning word order, punctuation, and the use of verbal, plural, and possessive endings. There is a variety of levels of word work: from simple single-syllable consonantal formation to complex polysyllabic Greek and Latin word-building - all levels involving word play and word experimentation. Students may test themselves by using a given word in a sentence. Student progress is recorded, assessed and stored for retrieval. (Comments/reviews welcome)

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