Resources and Links

Resources

The war of the word
Article from the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend magazine, October 4, 2003
http://www.multilit.com/documents/SMHarticle20031004.pdf

Network Clinics

• Child study clinic at University of Western Australia
  http://www.psychology.uwa.edu.au/about/the_school/child_study_centre
  brochure: http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/research/ddolnetwork/documents/CSC-Clinic-brochure-final.pdf

• DCNRU Clinic at Children's Hospital, Westmead (NSW)
  http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/research/ddolnetwork/documents/DNCRU.pdf

• Department of Psychology, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville (VIC)
  http://www.rch.org.au/psychology/ http://www.maccs.mq.edu.au/research/ddolnetwork/documents/Dept_Psy_info_RCH.pdf

• Multilit (NSW)                                                                                                                                                                                                       http://www.multilit.com.au/

• Learning and Development Clinic, Queensland University of Technology (QLD)                                                                               http://ldev.ed.qut.edu.au/about/                                                                                                                                                                                         

Links

The Specific Language Difficulties Association (SPELD) has branches in New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia.  SPELD websites contain useful information about language difficulties and local resources.

Australian Learning Disability Association (ALDA) provide access to information and resources for individuals with learning disabilities (LD), their families, educators and the general public of Australia. ALDA has contacts in all Australian states and territories.

LD online contains information about learning disabilities and also includes a section where you can ask Dr Silver for professional advice.

British Dyslexia Association (BDA)

Learning Disabilities Association of America