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Can dyslexic students be trained as teachers?
Author(s) -
MORGAN ELLEN,
ROONEY MARY
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9604.1997.tb00495.x
Subject(s) - dyslexia , psychology , mathematics education , learning disability , anxiety , pedagogy , developmental psychology , linguistics , reading (process) , philosophy , psychiatry
Increasing numbers of students with dyslexia are entering further and higher education. Those who go on to choose teaching as a career generate a certain amount of anxiety. Ellen Morgan and Mary Rooney show how student teachers with specific learning difficulties can overcome their problems. The strategies described here will be useful to others in similar circumstances.