Dyslexic? Need Help?

Lists of self-help resources for dyslexic people

We have found a useful list of resources for dyslexic people.  Here it is - please do share it.  Click Here.

The list comes from The Alliance - a health and social care organisation.  This is their vision:-

• Visit Alliance Scotland website:- http://www.alliance-scotland.org.uk/
• Email The Alliance:- info@alliance-scotland.org.uk

Would it Help if You Heard your Papers Read to You? Well, You Can!

The Adobe Acrobat "Read out Loud" feature was designed primarily as an accessibility feature, to help readers with visual or other reading impairments. 

You might not even know the facility is there, but it also happens to be a valuable writing tool.  If you hear your work read back to you, you can spot repeated phrases, illogical progressions from one argument to the next, or other irritating sentence structures that just don't sound right. 

Karen explains how it works, HERE.  (It's a pdf for you to practise on!)

Copyright, Photocopying, UK Music and Musicians

Colleagues in IAML (UK and Ireland) advise us that 'the Music Publishers’ Association has recently published a revised Code of Fair Practice, which is available on its website here: http://www.mpaonline.org.uk/content/code-fair-practice'

This summary comes from Claire Kidwell, the Chair of the IAML(UK and Ireland) Trade and Copyright Committee, with thanks:-

"The salient changes are as follows:

•The terms ‘copy’ and ‘copies’ have been clarified as meaning ‘any form of graphic reproduction of a printed music publication as well as the transcribing of music notation’ (see page 6)

•In consultation with the various music performance exam boards and the British & International Federation of Festivals, a permission has been added that enables copies to be made for adjudicators and performance examiners (provided the performer has legitimately obtained his/her copy) (see point 10, page 8)

•In consultation with the British Dyslexia Association, a permission has been added that enables a copy to be made by, or on behalf of, a person with dyslexia or any other type of reading impairment (provided the individual has legitimately obtained his/her copy) (see point 11, page 8)

These positive developments [...] have already been gratefully received by many librarians and library users." 

Forgotten letters: an anthology of literature by dyslexic writers

Edited by Naomi Folb.  Read more about it on News.Dyslexia.tv.


Are we the first library to add it to stock?   Whittaker Library has a copy!