Dyslexia teaching and learning aids, visual stress and phonics resources.  
Dyslexia and visual stress support including coloured overlays for reading;  multisensory teaching resources;
books, spelling games and other phonics activities; sand timers; pencil grips and handwriting aids.

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1 in 20 people are severely affected by Visual Stress (also called Meares-Irlen syndrome or Scotopic Sensitivity) that is often, though not always, associated with dyslexia.

Crossbow coloured overlays and reading rulers
for Visual Stress are now used in over

50%
of all UK schools

Reading Rulers   A4 Overlays   Visual Stress Assessment Pack   Tinted exercise books and pads    Virtual Reading Ruler and Overlay Software    Monitor overlays    Lucid VISS   

Click or scroll down to see our exciting range of multisensory teaching resources and games.  


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Tinted Exercise Books
Eight colours in A4, A5, Standard and Spelling Book sizes!

tinted handwriting books for visual stress
Exercise books

Handwriting books


 

Visual StressHandwritingmathsMemory and LearningPhonic GamesPhonic ReadersPhonics and SpellingTimers
AlphabetAcross the curriculumBrainbox GamesFirst 100 wordsGames to DownloadLetters and SoundsLetter ReversalsLiteracy Software
Magnetic ResourcesMake Your Own GamesPhotocopiable ActivitiesReading and ComprehensionScreening softwareSpeaking and Listening
Spelling UtilitiesStudy skills Teachers BooksTeach Reading
Visual SpellingWord FamiliesWriting and Language

Check out the BARGAIN BIN for  end-of-line reductions for school or home. 40-50% off selected items.


   

Bananagrams
is the inclusive
word game in the
banana skin.


Books for reluctant and dyslexic readers

Times Tables and Multisensory Maths Resources
Books and Games for People Who Can't Do Maths...

   

 

New Letters and Sounds Resource:
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Letters and Sounds Keyword Lotto
+ Lots more games and other multisensory resources for  reading, phonics, comprehension and language.

New decodable phonics readers

dandelion decodable phonic readers nan dandelion decodable phonic readers pip dandelion decodable phonic readers Sam Dandelion Readers: decodable phonic readers.
Great Literacy Software for Dyslexics
Sounds & RhymesPunctuate Magic E
Punctuate
Sounds and rhymes
Magic -E 
Soapbox Spelling
Suffixing 
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CVC Wordbuilder Literacy Games Chunk Stacker
Nessie Learning Programme
NESSY LEARNING PROGRAMME  
The complete literacy programme for dyslexic learners

 

Visual Stress

Coloured overlay solutions for home, school and the workplace: now used by 50% of UK schools.

                For Print

 For Screening
Irlen syndrome support - the reading ruler colored overlay can help dyslexia problems Irlen syndrome and dyslexia reading support with colored overlays. Lucid ViSS - comprehensive reports
"Eye Level" Tinted Reading Ruler A4 Overlays Visual Stress Screener Visual Stress Assessment pack 

For The Classroom

For The Computer

For Writing 

For the Workplace

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 Tinted Dri-wipe boards

 Monitor overlays The Virtual Reading Ruler Tinted pads
and exercise books
 
Employee and employer pack

 

Phonic Games

A great selection of phonic games for reading and spelling

phonic game for dyslexics for spelling final consonant blends
Initial Blends Final Blends Vowel Digraphs

Whole word chunks

Short and Long Vowels

Vowels, blends and digraphs

CVC/CVCC board games Level 2 spelling Board games Level 3 Spelling board games

8 Spelling board games

Syllabification

Prefixes and Suffixes

     NEW!

Brainbox ABC game

  Inexpensive double sided board games 
TRUGS  structured phonic games packs Snap it up card games Phonic games to download

Go Phonic  board game

Pick-up-a-Vowel phonic board game Go Plural spelling board game

 

Phonics and Spelling
Other multisensory resources for  reading and spelling.

Phonic Readers

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Dandelion Readers
Decodable Phonic Readers

Vowel Sound directory

Reading rods

Magnetic foam Letters

Photocopiable activities

Hot Dots phonic
flashcards

Modular Phonic Flipcharts

44 sounds desktops and wallcharts

Foam Cubes
set

 

Word Families

Many dyslexics find word families easier than synthetic phonics

Dyslexics often find onset and rime easier than synthetic phonics.

SPINGOES Phonological awareness games

RIME READ books

Chunk Stacker Game

Chunk Stacker CD ROM

Foam Cubes

Reading Rods

Spinner/Bingo/
Dominoes
games

 

Letters and Sounds
Multisensory resources for  phonemic awareness.

Mnemonics 

Decoding    

Alternative Spelling Puzzles

Phoneme Fans: simple and harder phonemes

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Letter Roads Letter Roads
Alphabet tracking play mats.

Bumper Resource Kits

 

Photocopiable Activities

Including a wide range of resources for older students

  
SPELLING AND PHONICS BOOK 2LEVEL - SAM
For Older Students For KS 1-2 For KS 1-Adult
How to Dazzle at...
(grammar, reading, spelling)
Rime Read   Structured reading activities through word families Hunt the Letter
The "Where's Wally" approach to initial sounds.
Limericks, Laughs and Vowel Digraphs
Vowel Digraph activities.
Phonic Wordsearch Coded wordsearches for phonics reinforcement. Literacy for Life Workbook series Yrs 1-6  Phonc "Box Dictations"
Structured visual dictation series.

 

Magnetic Resources

Magnetic resources for multisensory spelling support

Foam letters Phoneme Frames Rainbow Arc Wipe-clean boards Double-sided spelling strips

 

Handwriting

Handwriting and
letter formation resources.

Ten styles of pencil grip to suit all handwriting support needs A4 Cursive Letter Formation Whiteboard, Pen & Bag writing slope.jpg (99930 bytes) wikki_stix_1.jpg (52855 bytes) Start write, stay right.jpg (24540 bytes)
Pencil grips in ten styles Ergonomic heavyweight pen Letter formation whiteboards  Desktop writing slope Wikki-Stix:  fun, tactile letter formation Award-winning handwriting activities book

 

Writing and Language

Games and other multisensory resources for  creative writing,  grammar and language support.


New! Creative Writing for Reluctant Writers

 

Proofreading

Language Board Games

Parts of Speech

 Verb tenses

Sentence substitution

Sequencing cards and games

 
Writing and Language Prompts Writer's Directory Sentence Building Rods

 

Speaking and Listening              
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  Six Social Skills Board Games Conversation Dice Sequencing

Six Speaking and Listening Board Games

BLURT! Word-Finding game What Can You See? Language game Easy-Speak Pro MP3 recorder

 

Spelling and Reversals


Reversals and Visual Spelling Support with Letter Shapes

See also SOAPBOX

High Frequency words:the first hundred

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Spelling for dyslexics with Boses letter shapes

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First hundred high frequency words 
 

Deebees and Queen Peas: board games for letter reversals

The Boxes Font Letter-shape utility

"Box Dictations" structured phonic dictations from CVC to silent letters, with visual support.

 

Timers

Make Your Own Games

Behaviour

Time management, behaviour support and games accessories.

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Electronic timers and sand timers Make your own games:
materials and book

Behaviour support  material from leading consultants  Finton O'Regan and Rob Long

 

Screening software Study skills and memory Reading and Comprehension
 Dyslexia

 Lucid Rapid Dyslexia Screening - Phonic Decoding Test

 

 

 

Visual Stress

Lucid ViSS - comprehensive reports



Memory Booster - The game room


Brainbos memory games study skills: a multisensory guide reading and comprehension software comprehension games

Comprehension games

Reading riddle Maze
Memory Booster Software  "Brainbox" memory games Study Skills, a Multisensory Guide Reading_Booster Software
      Reading to learn.

"Barrier Buster": reading to learn.
 
comprehension cubes
Comprehension Cubes

Class Reader  Generic Board Game
comprehension cards
Comprehension Cards

 

Teachers' Books

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The Dyslexia Friendly Schools toolkit

Dynamic Assessment  tookit

The Neuroscience of Reading

The Spelling Rulebook

"The Eye Level Reading Ruler is particularly wonderful."    Anne-Marie Higginson, Gwent, UK.
"Thank you!  The rulers are really helping my son with his reading.  Thanks again.  A happy customer," M. Hummer
"The games are fantastic. I love your products. Thanks for making them!"  Mary Ward, Penge, London. 
 

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DYSLEXIA (AND RELATED) ARTICLES
 
Adhd and reading  Onset and Rime (analytic phonics)  Dyslexia and Reading Rulers  (Extract from UK Newspaper article)
At Home with a Specific Learning Difficulty The Power of the Visual Memory Dyslexia: a Working Definition
Sightword spelling,  why it works  Visual Stress and workplace law "The myth of Dyslexia" debate: the response of the ADO
Racing Demon: a game for many skills.    "Game for Anything"    Using games for learning
Phonic Worksheets with visual support  Phonic Books Sets FAQ  Sand timers, concentration and behaviour 
Dyslexia and Vision Visual Stress Symptoms and Solutions  Is my child dyslexic? Dyslexia recognition checklist.
Visual Stress F.A.Q. Dyslexia, Coloured Overlays and Visual Stress Coloured Overlays: their care and use
Dyslexia and the Music Student
Sir Jim Rose Presents findings of Review into Dyslexia
Coloured Overlays: How big does a coloured overlay have to be?


 
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Phonics lesson plans    Free lesson plans   (general subjects)

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