Chapter 1 Section 1

學習疾患 Learning Disorders

A. Reading Disorders including Dyslexia

網站建置者: Academic Language Therapy Association, an association of professionals who treat students with dyslexia and related disorders.
FAQs about the association, with membership information.
Directory of Web sites concerning dyslexia and other learning disabilities.

網站建置者: Davis Research Foundation
A charity that provides grants to public schools for children with dyslexia or other learning problems.

網站建置者: Dyslexia Institute (UK), a charity that assesses dyslexia and trains teachers to work with dyslexic people.
FAQs about assessing dyslexia and educational approaches to dyslexic children.

網站建置者: John Bradford, MA, an educator that conducts long-distance assessments for dyslexia.
Articles for parents helping their children cope with dyslexia.

網站建置者: Dr. Harold Levinson, a psychiatrist and neurologist (NY).
Describes Dr. Levinson𠏋 theory that dyslexia results from an inner ear, rather than a cortical, dysfunction.

網站建置者: Davis Dyslexia Association International, which trains facilitators and markets a method of helping people cope with dyslexia.
FAQs about the Davis Method with personal testimonials.
There is an excellent directory of sites at http://www.dyslexia.com/links.shtml.

網站建置者: Greenwood School for Dyslexia (VT).
Click on 𣫮esources?for links about dyslexia that may be of use to parents and teachers.

網站建置者: International Dyslexia Association.
Describes IDA𠏋 programs and conferences.
FAQs about dyslexia in the form of full-text articles, which address concerns of parents, college students, and educators.
Lists relevant print resources and organizations.

網站建置者: Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic, a nonprofit organization.
Records textbooks and educational materials and distributes them to eligible members for a nominal annual fee.

B. Mathematics Disorder

Mathematics Disorder

網站建置者: Adam.com, an online research for health information.
Brief overview article for the general public about this disorder and its treatment.

C. Disorder of Written Expression

Mental Health Net: Disorders of Written Expression

D. Web Sites with Relevance to All Learning Disorders

網站建置者: WETA, a public broadcasting television station (DC).
A Web site about LD for parents, teachers, and children.
By far the most extensive collection of LD resources in a single Web site.
FAQs about LD and an online newsletter.
Numerous full-text articles by leading professionals and organizations.
Offers many opportunities for exchanging information, including bulletin boards, a chat room, and a monthly 弌sk the expert?feature.
First-person material, including narratives by teachers, parents, and students.
㞠idZone?includes art work by LD children.
Extensive annotated hyperlinks to LD resources, lists of national and state organizations, a calendar of LD events, and a place to order PBS videotapes about learning disabilities.

網站建置者: Learning Disabilities Association of America.
Describes LDA𠏋 programs and referral network, services to parents, and advocacy resources for people with LD.

網站建置者: Office of Special Education, Curry School of Education, University of Virginia.
An assortment of links to Internet resources and print publications about LD.

網站建置者: New York branch of the International Dyslexia Association.
Supportive information and study tips written mostly by dyslexic teens for dyslexic teens.
A few links to other LD Web sites.

網站建置者: VSA arts, an affiliate of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that offers art-based programming for the disabled.
Describes VSA𠏋 programs; online gallery of work produced by disabled people in the programs.
Click on 𣫮esources?for links to other Web sites about disabilities and the arts.