Dyslexia: Time for Talent is a wealth of information for parents of children with dyslexia. It guides and empowers parents through dyslexia, from the early years through to adulthood. It is the first book of its kind to address dyslexia from a holistic perspective: academically, emotionally, behaviourally, socially and spiritually.
The author, Carolina Frohlich, is a qualified specialist teacher, educational cognitive/abilities/attainment assessor of learning difficulties and educational consultant to schools. The author has dyslexia and is the parent of 2 children with dyslexia and dyspraxia.
From personal and professional experience, the author knows that if dyslexia is not addressed early, considerately or holistically, it can affect children's self-esteem, morale, achievement potential and self-confidence. Time For Talent empowers parents and children by providing proven learning strategies that work for parents and children at home and in the classroom.
✔ Discover how children can learn successfully
✔ Identify children’s strengths and talents
✔ Identify Multiple Intelligences and Learning Preferences
✔ Learn excellent strategies for home and in the classroom
✔ Find proven learning solutions
✔ Boost your child’s self-confidence and self-esteem
✔ Raise achievement potential
✔ Access emotional support (parents and children)
✔ Manage behaviour and survive homework time
✔ ‘Get physical’: health, nutrition and exercise
As dyslexia often co-exists with other ‘conditions’, there is information about dyspraxia, dysgraphia, dyscalculia, dysnomia, ADHD, Speech and Language, Sensory Processing Disorder, Auditory Processing Disorder, Visual Processing difficulties, Asperger Syndrome, Irlen Syndrome, Primitive Reflexes, among other learning difficulties.
BERNADETTE MCLEAN, PRINCIPAL OF THE HELEN ARKELL DYSLEXIA CENTRE: I am delighted to write the foreword to this timely and comprehensive book. Carolina Fröhlich's views on dyslexia resonate perfectly with the training she received at the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre some years ago. The HADC motto is making the most of a difference and this could well be the strap line for Time for Talent. This comprehensive book celebrates the difference in style and learning that people with dyslexia bring to their worlds at home, school and in the workplace. Carolina speaks as a parent and as an educator as well as offering her own dyslexic perspective. The book is accessible, informative and positive. It works right through the age range to adulthood and this journey of support is made credible by the many case studies showing dyslexia alongside co-existing difficulties. Refer to it as a complete book of recipes some for now, some for later. Or, treat it like the road map that Carolina offers and get on with your journey wherever you are. The comprehensive nature of Time for Talent means that many holistic approaches are included for those who want to add these to their toolkit. Parents of children with dyslexia will find Time for Talent invaluable; in fact I would suggest that there are excellent parenting strategies for parents of any children. This is the ideal book for the multiple diversity of people who have dyslexia, and the multi-faceted people who care for them something for everyone.