Parents' Page

We have a small selection of books available for parents to borrow on your child’s card. These books can be borrowed for two weeks.

• Planning to Move, Moving to Plan: Living with Developmental Dyspraxia in New Zealand by Judy Davies 
www.dyspraxia.org.nz
• The Anti-bullying Handbook by Keith Sullivan
• Bully Busting: How to help children deal with teasing and bullying by Evelyn Field
• Going to hospital: A book for children. 
NB This is a Christchurch based book which is well worth reading with your child if they are going in to hospital. Highly recommended.


• The Reading Bug and how you can help your child to catch it by Paul Jennings 
A great easy read which inspires you to encourage your kids to read. Highly recommended by many educationalists
• Brainy parents - brainy kids by John Joseph. Deals with brain stimulation, learning and the psychology of the child.
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Raising boys by Steve Biddulph. The psychology of boys.
• The gift of dyslexia: why some of the brightest people can’t read and how they learn
• Rocket your child into reading by Jackie French
• My friend has dyspraxia by Nicola Edwards
• The parent’s homework handbook by Christine Ward
• Dyspraxia by Geoff Brookes
  

Web Sites of Interest:
Dyslexia - www.davislearn.com, www.dysadd.com symptoms www.ddapacific.co.nz, wwww.picture.thinkers.co.nz

Visual Memory - jigsaw puzzles www.jigzone.co.nz eye exercises. www.eyecanlearn.com I spy www.scholastic.com/ispy/play/index.asp

Auditory memory - www.masteringmemory.co.uk, www.kidscanlearn.net.

ABC's - Learn to read phonic and comphrension www.starfall.com. This is a great site to play and learn