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Book Launch: Dyslexia: Time for Talent – The Ultimate Guide for Parents and Children – Early Years to University by Carolina Fröhlich

Book Launch:

Dyslexia: Time for Talent – The Ultimate Guide for Parents and Children – Early Years to University

by Carolina Fröhlich

London-born and living in Surrey, Carolina Fröhlich is a successful published author, international speaker and educational consultant to parents and schools in the United Kingdom and British International Schools worldwide on dyslexia.

Carolina has dyslexia. Along with her many years of teaching children, Carolina is the parent of two children with dyslexia and dyspraxia. She draws on her professional training in specific learning difficulties, the hurdles she encountered as a parent, and how she overcame her own dyslexia to inspire children, parents and teachers.

Time for Talent is the only book parents will need to guide and empower their children through dyslexia, from the early years through to adulthood. It is the first book of its kind to address dyslexia from a holistic perspective. From personal and professional experience, Carolina knows that if dyslexia is not addressed early, considerately or holistically, it will affect children’s self-esteem, morale, achievement potential, self-confidence and much more. It can affect the harmony of family life too.

Time for Talent really supports parents and helps them understand what is happening in their children’s hearts and minds, what is going on in the classroom, and provides proven strategies to guide and support their child in and out of school. The book is the result of working with hundreds of parents who are frustrated and can’t understand what their child is going through, and unable to find the information they need at an easy, practical and empathic level.

Every child has a talent and Carolina shows the reader how to identify and focus on that talent whilst dealing with a myriad of learning challenges at school. She encourages parents to maintain a positive, sensitive attitude when working with children with dyslexia, concentrating on the different ways children learn successfully.

Carolina Fröhlich is the author of the highly successful spelling workbooks for children: High and Medium Frequency Words (My Spelling Books 1 and 2), which are endorsed by the Helen Arkell Dyslexia Centre in Surrey.

Contact details:
www.carolinafrohlich.co.uk
www.icanspell.co.uk

10/31/2013
Find the alien

Today’s freebie contains 3 worksheets with each two exercises. Children have to find a given shape. They can color or circle the shape – just as they like. These exercises train attention and visual perception – important skills for good reading, writing and calculating.

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05/06/2013
Robots – drawing and mirroring

Today’s freebie offers you various robots and a spacecraft. Children have to draw these into the grid, mirror them or make them smaller or bigger. Children are counting, comparing up and down and left and right. This trains attention, eye-hand-coordination and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing and calculating.

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04/29/2013
More picture chaos

Monday’s freebie was quite the success on pinterest, so we decided to offer some more picture chaos. This time we used black and white graphics from Cre8tiveHands. Again, children have to order the pictures which have been mixed up. This trains attention and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing and calculating.

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04/10/2013
Picture chaos

Over at openclipart.org we have seen a nice pinguin which has been waiting for an appearance in our worksheets for a while. The pinguin with all its disguises is perfect for today’s freebie Picture chaos. The pictures are mixed up and children have to put the numbers in the correct order. The pinguins are also added as a template for children who have great difficulties with this kind of exercise. You can use the templates as cards for memory. These exercises train attention and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing and calculating.

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04/08/2013
Chillola

Check out the wonderful world of chillola.com where you can learn your first words in English, Spanish, French, German and Italian. You can print out activities, participate in the kids’ gallery and learn about different countries, cultures and people. This site is designed for kids and their parents to encourage language learning, and to have great fun with foreign languages. Our mission is to encourage kids to learn, be creative, be active, have fun, and to help parents by providing worksheets and tools that promote language learning.

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03/12/2013
Ninja perception training

Today’s freebie contains perception training with ninjas: tracing and finding the shadows. This trains attention and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing and calculating.

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03/04/2013
Monster – Perception training

Who can say “no” to these monsters? Today’s freebie is full of monsters! Children have to find monsters, connect monsters, recognize clippings and find monster shadows. These exercises train attention and visual and spatial perception – important skills for reading, writing and calculating.

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02/18/2013
Tracing exercise

Tracing is a very good exercise for dyslexic and dyscalculic children. Tracing trains attention, fine motor skills and visual and spatial perception. Today’s freebie offers a mini-book with different abstract forms to trace and to draw. First, children have to trace the form, then they have to draw the form into the box.

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01/07/2013