2 October 2025
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October marks Dyslexia Awareness Month, with Dyslexia Awareness Week running 6-12th October, and Dyslexia Awareness Day falling on the 8th October!
With so much going on this month, now is the perfect time to think about your kit of assessments or your range of resources, or even discover some new books to read!
Assessments
If you are a dyslexia assessor, have you tried the Tests of Dyslexia (TOD) yet? TOD is the first comprehensive assessment of dyslexia, eliminating the need to use tests from different assessments. Linking dyslexia assessment to targeted interventions has never been more efficient and effective!
Books
We've currently got a fantastic selection of dyslexia-focused books available in the shop!
This book contains a raw, honest and enlightening collection of experiences, across the black and dyslexic community, giving an intersectional perspective on topics including the education system, the workplace, daily life and entrepreneurship.
If you have a young person with dyslexia, this fun and inspiring book will introduce them to a group of children who talk about their strengths, and demonstrates to young people how they can help themselves and how adults can help them.
This is a guide developed to assist you in supporting children and young people with dyslexia and specific learning difficulties throughout their education. Specifically designed for those on Level 5 courses in dyslexia and specific learning difficulties, this is the perfect training companion for those wanting to know more about dyslexia and how to support them.
This guide for teachers demystifies and disentangles different types of literacy difficulty, and explains how they can impact the child's day-to-day classroom functioning and general school life.
The Parent’s Guide to Understanding and Supporting Your Child with Literacy Difficulties
Supporting a child with literacy difficulties doesn't end at the school gates! This guide is for parents and is designed to help you understand how your child’s difficulties may affect them in a home setting.
Resources
We also have a number of resources available in the shop to support dyslexic learners.
The Number Box is a multi sensory teaching programme and maths resource. It was designed for those children who struggle with maths for one of several reasons. The box contains dice, tape measures, a clock face and much more, all to help children play and take part in their learning.
No set up time is required - simply open up the Number Box and go!
The Five Minute Literacy Box is the multi-sensory phonics programme which enables the early identification of potential specific learning difficulties. The Box provides secure basic skills for reading, spelling and writing thus maintaining self-esteem and a more positive attitude.
Following the principles set out in the Five Minute Literacy Box, The Ten Minute Box is a targeted multisensory phonics intervention for teaching digraphs to all learners from Primary to Secondary school, working alongside any phonics scheme in use within schools. Everything is in the Box: detailed instructions, assessments, lesson plan, fun activities, games and resources to teach more complex phoneme sequences.
Literacy Gold goes Beyond Phonics to improve the auditory and vision skills needed to read and spell.
These multi-sensory, structured programs address Erratic Eye Movements and the Phonological Deficit to improve reading by 12 months and spelling by 10.5 months in just one term.
Suitable for Key Stage 1 to Key Stage 3!
We hope you find the above products useful and beneficial to your teaching or practice! If you have any further questions, why not get in touch with us at the shop? We’d be glad to answer any questions you may have!
Just give us a call on +44 (0) 1784 222339 or email us shop@dyslexiaaction.org.uk.
