12. Website credits.

Produced by BSS to accompany a short season on dyslexia, first shown on Channel 4 in July 1999.

Updated in May 2002.

Writer: Maureen O'Connor
Editor: Paula Snyder
Deputy Editor: Denise Searle
Editorial Consultant: Elizabeth Sturgeon
Design: BSS

Channel 4 would like to thank the following for their help and advice with the content and design of this website and accompanying booklet.

• The British Dyslexia Association who also gave permission for us to use and adapt the various checklists, taken from their handbook.
  
  
• Patience Thompson, former principal of Fairly House School and currently the chairman of Barrington Stoke, publishers of specialist fiction for reluctant readers.
  
  
• Dr Rea Reason, Centre for Educational Needs, School of Education, The University of Manchester.

Contents of this site.

1. Introduction.

2. What is dyslexia?

3. Who is dyslexic?

4. Scientific findings.

5. Dyslexia and the education system.

6. How to recognise dyslexia in children.

7. Dyslexia in adults.

8. How to help.

9. External tests and examinations.

10. The way forward.

11. Finding out more.

12. Credits.