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- 1. Sarah Forteath Business Development Manager, Library & Information Services 15 July 2015
- 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1O7pJaWrphM Dyslexia all cultures, across the range of abilities, all socio-economic backgrounds, hereditary, life-long, neurodevelopmental condition, unidentified results in low self esteem, high stress, atypical behaviour, and low achievement What is your library service doing to support those with Dyslexia? 4 steps of Edinburgh Libraries partnership with Dyslexia Scotland: Awareness, Engagement, Support /resource, Mainstreaming
- 5. Edinburgh Reads – what we set out to do All age groups Promote benefit & joys of reading Staff training & coaching Symbiotic partnerships Funding & sponsorship Provide Cultural, learning & literary life Affect performance Embed RD in everything we do
- 7. Income generation & PR Profile The Importance of EDGE The Scottish Government believe libraries offer crucial support to help people themselves: to support literacy, digital participation, learning, employability, health, culture & leisure – they can improve the quality of people’s lives and support them to engage in the democratic process…Edinburgh City Council is at the forefront of maintaining good quality, innovative library services, having developed the EDGE conference as an opportunity to share good practice and discuss future developments.
- 8. What’s next… Every child a library member Make the library the go to space after school……
Editor's Notes
- This is a summary of the working definition of dyslexia developed by the Scottish Government, Dyslexia Scotland and the Cross Party Group on Dyslexia in the Scottish Parliament. English, where there is often no clear connection between the written form and sound, as in words such as "cough" and "dough", can be more challenging for a person with dyslexia. Dyslexia reflects a very specific difficulty with reading. It occurs with low, normal and high IQs alike Brains just process information differently, often very bright, analytic, creative and gifted in other areas. Many people with dyslexia have a very high ability to reason and understand ideas and concepts. This is a simulated version of a couple of pages of Sally Gardner’s Maggot Moon – herself a dyslexic who has written a book with a dyslexic superhero! PLAY YOUTUBE If this is what it looks like to read a book – why would you ever want to enter a library full of these jumbled up words and moving lines? Where is the pleasure in trying to look at, let alone read coherently, a page like this?
- As a result of our work with DS in DAW we developed and launched Dyslexia Chatterbooks to encourage P4-7 children (aged 8-11) to read for pleasure! This was developed by two dedicated librarians and a number of volunteers – all of whom have personal or close experience of dyslexia. 3 groups in different libraries (CC, Md, Sb) 25 children, 5 volunteers
- As ever, we use the catalogue to promote reading and we now have new ways of doing that. Another example of a product of our reading services is reading lists on the catalogue. Literacy support is an intrinsic part of Reader Development in Edinburgh - It as much about promoting what we have with the people that need it as making sure you have appropriate stock –
- Edinburgh City Libraries provide a huge range of activities to engage readers of all levels Edinburgh Reads is our reading and events programme At the heart of this ‘EMBED RD in everything we do’ and closely linked is SYMBIOTIC PARTNERSHIPS Performance across the service has continued to improve: In 2013/14 Physical visits to libraries have increased by 9% to over 3.3 million Library issues, including online renewals, have increased by 12% to over 3 million Attendance has also increased, seeing an 8.8% rise for under 16s events and 12% for adult events In 2014/15 Physical visits to libraries have increased by 2% to over 3.4 million visits; Issues have remained at over 3 million, Library events attendance has also increased seeing a 10% rise for under 16s events and 16% for adult events.
- Running since 2013 -1200 4 year olds in areas of deprivation in 2015 -Joint programme with Children and Families, parent/carer involvement is at the heart of this. -Parents/carers, Early Years settings and Libraries all take part in evaluation