Downloads and Resources
Overview of Supplementary Admissions Route for Students with Disabilities
Summary of Supplementary Admissions Route for Students with Disabilities
Supplementary Admissions Route for Students with Disabilities Screening Criteria
Teaching Students with Disabilities - Guidelines for Academic Staff
Guide for Educational Support Workers
DIT Maths Learning Centre Sessions 2013
Dyslexia Information:
LD Online:
www.ldonline.org/
International Dyslexia Association(USA):
www.interdys.org/
British Dyslexia Association (BDA):
www.bdadyslexia.org.uk/
Dyslexia Association of Ireland (DAI):
www.dyslexia.ie/
Dyslexia at College- great tips and skills for adapting to studying at
third level with an SpLD):
www.dyslexia-college.com/
Learning Styles:
Felder Model for learning styles (Excellent online learning styles
questionaire)
www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
Fleder Learning Styles Description:
www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSdir/styles.htm
Fleder home page( Index of Learning Styles):
www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/ILSpage.html
VARK (Visual/Aural/ Read & Write/ Kinaesthetic) easy and quick online
questionnaire:
www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp
Study Skills
Skills for Study:Stella Cottrell (expert on study skills for third
level, this website is a companion to her excellent book, The Study
Skills Handbook(2008))
www.palgrave.com/skills4study/studyskills/
How to Study (including the ten study habits of effective learners):
www.how-to-study.com/
Mind mapping:
Tony Buzan(the mind mapping guru!):
www.buzanworld.com/
Mind Tools:
www.mindtools.com/pages/main/newMN_ISS.htm
Academic Writing, Spelling and Grammar
Ask Oxford (most common Spelling and Grammar questions):
www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/classicerrors/?view=uk
Spelling (most common misspelled words)
www.askoxford.com/betterwriting/spelling/?view=uk
The Dolch Basic Sight Vocabulary list: this list of 220 words represents three quarters of all words used in academic books, newspapers, and magazines.
http://www.english-zone.com/reading/dolch.html
The Academic Phrasebank: Tips on how to improve your introduction, conclusion and general writing.
http://www.phrasebank.manchester.ac.uk
Careers
WAM (Willing Able Mentoring- supported employment opportunities for
graduates)
www.ahead.ie/employment_wamprogramme.php
AHEAD(Assoication of higer education access & disability)
www.ahead.ie/index.php
FAS( supported employment programme):
www.fas.ie/en/Communities/Supported+Employment.htm
AHEAD: (Guidelines for Disclosure):
www.ahead.ie/employment_studentsgraduates.php
