Dyslexia Awareness Week 2023

It's Dyslexia Awareness Week, an opportunity to celebrate and appreciate dyslexics and challenge common misconceptions about dyslexia.

Our Libraries hold a variety of dyslexia friendly books, which are available to view online via OLIVER, our Library Management System.  As well as all the dyslexia friendly ‘quick read’ fiction printed on cream paper in a dyslexia friendly font and double spaced, the Libraries hold ‘careers’, ‘well-being’ and ‘study skills’ books. Simply click on the ‘reading lists’ at the top of the screen and then ‘D’ for ‘Dyslexia-Friendly books’.  Alternatively click here to view.  

For GCSE students, we have two unabridged, dyslexia friendly copies of A Christmas Carol, Macbeth and An Inspector Calls.  Other unabridged classics and retellings of classics are available too.  We have recently added The Self-Help Guide for Teens with Dyslexia: Useful Stuff You May Not Learn at School by Alais Winton and The Dyslexia, ADHD, and DCD-Friendly Study Skills Guide: Tips and Strategies for Exam Success by Ann-Marie McNicholas.

In addition, the LoveReading4Kids website have a great list of dyslexia friendly books by age group - click here to view.  The Books Trust's book recommendations can be viewed by clicking here. here.