UK dyslexia links
Finding reliable information can be a difficult job. Here are a list of links that we believe are useful and reliable.
Dyslexia Action is a national charity and the UK's leading provider of services and support for people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties.
CALL Scotland (Communication Aids for Language and Learning) provides expertise in assistive technology for kids and adults with a broad range of resources available.
British Dyslexia Association vision is of a dyslexia friendly society that will enable all dyslexic people to reach their potential
Dyslexia Research Trust was set up by Professor John Stein and Dr Sue
Fowler at Oxford
University to fund cutting edge interdisciplinary research into
dyslexia and other related conditions and to support free clinics to
assess and assist people with these conditions
National Bureau for Students with Disabilities is a national
charity promoting opportunities for young people and adults with any
kind of impairment in post-16 education, training and employment.
British Institute of Learning Disabilities is working to
improve the lives of people in the UK with a learning disability
BIBIC is a national charity offering practical help to families caring for
children with conditions such as autism, cerebral palsy, Down’s
syndrome, developmental delay, traumatic and acquired brain injury and
specific learning difficulties such as attention deficits hyperactivity
disorder, dyslexia and dyspraxia.
Equality Challenge Unit supports the higher education sector in its
mission to realise the
potential of all staff and students whatever their race, gender,
disability, sexual orientation, religion and belief or age, to the
benefit of those individuals, higher education institutions and society.
GCQ provides regulations and guidance give candidates who are eligible for
adjustments in exams better access to qualifications.
BRITE Initiative promotes access to information and expertise in the use of enabling
technologies to support students with disabilities and additional
support needs
Dyslexia mailing list is for the
discussion of issues of particularconcern to dyslexics. Particular
attention will be given to computertools which dyslexics find to be
useful
NADP is the
professional organisation for disability and support staff in further
and higher education