The Study Skills Toolkit for Students with Dyslexia
- Monica Gribben - Edinburgh Napier University, UK
Issues covered include:
" Procrastination
" Planning your assignment
" Understanding your assignment question
" Researching your assignment
" Writing your assignment
" Referencing your assignment
" Managing your own well-being.
Drawing on years of experience running study skills workshops, Monica Gribben has written this book to be as accessible as possible for students with dyslexia as they work through the many challenges that studying at university will present.
Features and materials include:
" Helpful Hints
" Timetable cards
" Assignment checklists
" Frequently Asked Questions
" Exercises to help students develop study skills strategies
Downloadable electronic resources are available online to increase the accessibility of the materials provided. This book is the perfect guide for any student with dyslexia studying in higher education.
Monica Gribben is a private dyslexia consultant and Dyslexia Adviser at Edinburgh Napier University.
An excellent resource for students who have been recently been diagnosed with dyslexia and other staff in education who support students with specific learning disabilities. Tips and resources greatly enhance my teaching for all students.
Given the nature of this book, I encouraged a dyslexic student to review it and write up some feedback. This hopefully provides a meaningful review from the perspective of the target audience. The following comments are in the student’s own words.
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I found this book to very informative and supportive of my needs as a Dyslexia Student.
I thought the advice and the words used in the first couple of pages sets an excellent tone for how the book should be used. This book does not feel overwhelming like most other academic books. Everything is broken down nicely and helps you visualise and put into practice what it preaches.
I really liked the way it sets out each chapter, simple clear outline with the key themes highlighted right at the start.
Having to try and deal with my dyslexia at university, this book would have been perfect for me. It sets out to tackle and address the worries the student will have right from the outset, which I didn’t expect from this book. I’m really glad it did as it is something that some people overlook when dealing with Dyslexia.
The activities are very well thought out and I found very useful it helped me understand my specific learning difficulties.
The most useful chapters and the chapters I found myself coming back to was Chapter 4: Understanding Your Assignment, and Chapter 7: Writing Your assignment. With Chapter 7 it breaks down the barrier of the enormity of the task. Using the activities and the guides, it gives great support and structure that I as a student found really useful and will continue to use this as a guide to write further assignments in the future. Using What Goes Where and the Activity 7.3 SWAT it, and for me the Style of Language and what to use and not use was the most useful. Even though I am aware that these are not new ideas or methods but what it has done is brought it all together form me and helped me put them to good use not just a bolt on activity to tick a box.
I also found listing to the podcasts with a quick summery of the chapters useful, and it was great to see all the actives and resources available online.
I would highly recommend this toolkit to a current and students entering Higher Education. Not only did it help me identify and support my specific learning disability, it does so in a non-threatening way that encourages you to develop and embed the tools and mechanisms in the book in the way you learn and apply it in Higher Education.
very useful practical approach offering strategies and tips as to how a student can be successful. works well across UG and PG.
Do not like the print/paper etc..
This is an interesting read that is a good addition to any teachers bookshelf. This will assist teachers in developing their teaching for students as well as assisting students with dyslexia in what they can do to help themselves
A useful text to support students with dyslexia, especially those in HE who have been recently diagnosed and are eager to support themselves further.
This is a valuable read for meeting the specific needs of students managing this condition.
I found it an excellent practical, down to earth guide in how to support students with dyslexia. I liked the practical suggestions and ideas rather than just woolly recommendations.
This is a fantastic book and one which I will use in work with students within the classroom. I have recommneded it and reffered to it and will also be using it in the development of an updated module for 2013 which includes study skills for social workers. Thank you for this work.
A very accessible book for students with dyslexia, non-dyslexic students and tutors. Gribben's book \walks the talk" in that the pages are tinted a cream colour, a plain font is used and the font size makes reading more accessible. She speaks to the student in language that is readily understood. I have used the resources from the companion website to support the chapters. It is very evident that the author has used her relevant experience to write this book and to devise the activities.
