Welcome to 'dyslexia-research.com', a different type of website about dyslexia.  This website has three main purposes: (1) To educate readers about the emotional/secondary effects of dyslexia. (2) To educate mainstream teachers about dyslexia and SEN in the classroom (3) Introduce a new dyslexic fiction author - Alex Nile. As a researcher, Special educational needs teacher (SEN) and a dyslexic myself. I aim to produce research and publications that question current perception of living with a learning difficulty. Such a difficulty that affects not only children but adults as well. My latest book 'Dyslexia: Dating, Marriage and Parenthood' looks at the adult effect of dyslexia, taking to both dyslexics and their non-dyslexic partners. Significant communication problems were discovered and investigated. I invite to you to look at the different areas of this website, and I welcome comments and suggestions about how it can be improved. KINDLE BOOK - OUT NOW (ONLY £1.30) ! (BUT YOU DON'T NEED A KINDLE TO READ IT) This guide was created during a spell as a SEN (Special Educational Needs) teacher at a mainstream secondary education school. It was written to inform non-SEN teachers of what is required for them to offer differentiated interventions to students. This school had over 50% out of 1000 pupils on the SEN register (how schools measure SEN needs in a school: from mild to severe), thus it was likely that 50% of students they taught would have some SEN (so 15 out of 30 students), and the teacher’s lack of knowledge/awareness/interventions were creating serious behavioural issues. I know this as I sat in many of these classes and saw that SEN students were truly unruly as their needs were consistently unmet on a daily basis. The need for this sort of guide was huge. http://www.amazon.co.uk/SEN-Differentiations-positive-interventions-ebook/dp/B007STKDK8/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_5 DUE OUT IN MAY 2012 Dyslexia is still seen as a mysterious disorder, and the layman's concept of dyslexia is that it only affects reading and writing - which is in fact misleading and vague. This book discusses the secondary effects of having such a difficulty with communication. This book aims to study long-term partners/spouses of dyslexics and it investigates young dyslexics who are dating. Lastly, how parenting is affected by dyslexics returning to school for their own children, into the traumatic environment they suffered in as children is analysed in this book. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dyslexics-Marriage-Parenthood-Neil-Alexander-Passe/dp/1619425203/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_1 https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=30955&osCsid=ea96bbadf32cb7832b94f4fc57a2255b DUE OUT IN MAY/JUNE/JULY 2012 This is the second book of this series, the first being ‘Dyslexia and Creativity’. This series has been advantageous to readers by informing them that looking at issues from a singular angle can cause distortion, so several points of reference are used to better understand complex problems. As a developmental disorder, dyslexia is medical in origin but educational in treatment. Due to its varying nature and severity, diagnosis is commonly delayed after educational failure has begun. The emotional effects of such failure and social exclusion are rarely discussed, and this book aims to discuss such matters openly. Enclosed you will find the work of nine professors and other researchers in the field, some taking highly academic perspectives, whilst others preferring a more down-to-earth style. Chapters are also included from neurologists, educational psychologists and employment specialists, who give alternative ways to understand the topic. No one contributor has the whole picture, thus a worldwide span is required to do the subject justice, with the authors reflecting this concept. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dyslexia-Mental-Health-Investigations-Perspectives/dp/1621004325/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_6 https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=28885&osCsid=ea96bbadf32cb7832b94f4fc57a2255b OUT NOW! The book also investigates dyslexia, by reviewing past empirical research into its symptoms and diagnosis, into how it affects individuals at school, at home and lastly in the workplace. Whilst dyslexia may have been recognised by many medical minds for over a century, it has only been fully recognised by educationalists for less than a decade, thus the study of secondary manifestations due to a lack of recognition by teachers is the basis for this book.  The main study of N=29 adult dyslexics used both qualitative (Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis-IPA) and quantitative methodologies. IPA was found to be beneficial in understanding the life experiences and secondary manifestations in participants. The majority of participants were only diagnosed as dyslexic after leaving school and this the author finds typical of the many dyslexics he has encountered. Whilst the study set out to investigate depression as a sub-factor, it turned out to be the main focus of the study, as the majority of those who took part were depressed at some points in their child and/or adult lives. Gender also turned out to be an important variable in understanding how male and female dyslexics cope with the educational experiences they encountered. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dyslexia-Depression-Psychiatry-Theory-Applications-Treatments/dp/1608761185/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0 https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=10790&osCsid=ea96bbadf32cb7832b94f4fc57a2255b OUT NOW! ‘Dyslexia and Creativity: An Academic Perspective’ is the first in a series to investigate under-researched areas of dyslexia. Whilst traditional understanding of creativity is solely concerned with the arts, wider investigation suggests it includes many other careers, from cooking to sport, business to politics. Thus creativity can be seen is all areas of society. As dyslexia is traditionally perceived to be a disability affecting reading and writing, many imagine that dyslexics are unable to attain in our word-based society. However many have, and these include world leaders and celebrities, in a range of areas. So how can they be dyslexic and attain to such high standards? What is that they have, in addition to their difficulties that allow them to reach international success?  One explanation is that dyslexics develop compensation skills as a reaction to their difficulties; another suggests that the dyslexic brain is neurologically different, and a third sees dyslexics as part of the next stage in human evolution, with superior abilities for our modern age.  However research to date has been unable to support the claim that dyslexics are creative or have visual-spatial talents in excess of the normal population. Thus this book aims to shed light on the issue, through three types of perspectives: (1) Academic Perspectives; (2) Personal Perspectives; and (3) Alternative Perspectives.  ‘Dyslexia and Creativity: An Academic Perspective’ is the collection of sixteen perspectives, from authors and artists from the US, UK, Sweden and Australia, which aim to enlighten the reader to new academic research, personal views of dyslexic artists, and an investigative interview study challenging dyslexic artists to ‘what makes the dyslexic artist unique’.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dyslexia-Creativity-Investigations-Perspectives-Perspective/dp/1616685522/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_4 https://www.novapublishers.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=13213&osCsid=ea96bbadf32cb7832b94f4fc57a2255b JUST LAUNCHED (ONLY UK£1.92) FROM A NEW DYSLEXIC AUTHOR - ALEX NILE (KINDLE BOOK) This book tells the story of Josh a school boy in Year 6 at primary school. He is having problems in class and daydreams a lot to cope with lessons he perceives as boring (‘boring lessons and boring reading books’). His best friend is Harry, who also has problems reading and writing. In their school they are part of the Idiots gang, not by choice but labelled so by the Diamond Gang, a gang that bullies and recruits young and weaker children for their money. The idiots are those pupils that are perceived by the Diamonds to be stupid and thick, and importantly seen as easy prey for bullying. Josh and Harry do not enjoy school and are not looking forward to moving to secondary school, where they dread more bullying. As part of the school’s pre-secondary school transfer policy, all Year 6 pupils are tested for reading and writing. In their class Josh and Harry are identified as failing and need extra help with Maggie, a specialist teacher. This testing has highlighted to the boy’s parents that they are suffering at school and have been neglected for many years by their teachers. This story tells of their mum’s battle with the school, fighting the injustice they see in their son’s education. This story is told from the boys perspective of how this is affects them.  http://www.amazon.co.uk/School-Ultimate-Dyslexic-Battleground-ebook/dp/B007XPIB6K/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1335479589&sr=8-2 OUT NOW (ONLY UK77 PENCE) ! FROM A NEW DYSLEXIC AUTHOR - ALEX NILE (KINDLE BOOK) This book tells the story of David, an unidentified dyslexic who believes he is stupid and lazy, well that’s what everyone including his teachers called him at school. No one diagnosed him growing up and he slipped through the net for diagnosis at school. He lies to cover up for his inadequacies, and then he forgets what and who he has said these lies to, which gets him into trouble and has wrecked many personal relationships. Seeing a new counselling practice opening by work, where he is a lowly accounts clerk, he asks what counselling could offer him, to see if he really is stupid and lazy. He wants to discover the truth. His journey is tracked in this book, as he discovers why he lies so much to cover up his difficulties. He investigates if his lies are in fact a mask, and why he might use it to protect himself and those around him. In his journey of truth he falls in love, is diagnosed by an educational psychologist, goes to college to improve his literacy and numeracy skills, and deals with the many challenges of disclosure at work.  His relationship with his mother and siblings begins to be investigated, which sheds light on why he began to be a secret dyslexic in the first place, hiding his difficulties by lie after lie. http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Deceitful-Dyslexic-ebook/dp/B0076PESZA/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3 CHECK OUT HIS WEBSITE AT: http://alexnile.weebly.com/