New Release from AlphaGraphe Publishing!
10 Keys to Supporting Students with Learning Disabilities
by Alex-Andrée Madore and Michèle Minor-Corriveau, authors,
and Josée Lavoie-Mutonkole, illustrator
This unique, easy-to-read, evidence-based guide offers students, parents, teachers, and literacy interventionists clear and concrete tools and techniques to better understand, support, and empower students with learning disabilities.
Through its ten essential "keys" (chapters) the authors uncover an inclusive, compassionate, and research-supported approach. This book is written for students facing learning challenges and the supportive adults who guide them. It provides key insights to understand learning disabilities, recognize difficulties, and celebrate each child's unique strengths. With impactful visuals and inclusive messages, it offers practical tools to build self-confidence, understand rights, and encourage self-advocacy. Using the right strategies, students can achieve new levels of success. Discover how parents, educators, and students can work together as a united team, committed to helping every learner thrive.
Foreword by Élise Gravel, internationally acclaimed children's author and illustrator
About the Author :
Alex-Andrée Madore is a registered Clinical and School Psychologist with the College of Psychologists of Ontario. She currently serves as lead psychologist at the Conseil scolaire catholique du Nouvel-Ontario in Sudbury, and is a member of the Association of Psychology Leaders in Ontario Schools. She has worked in a non-profit agency setting and in schools providing psychological services to children and youth across the north since 2009. She also volunteers on the board of directors of the Learning Disabilities Association of Sudbury. She is passionate about helping parents/guardians and teachers in French-minority language settings embrace the science behind teaching reading and writing. In 2023, Alex-Andrée was presented with a Literacy Leader Award by the International Dyslexia Association of Ontario for her engagement in promoting awareness and understanding of structured literacy programming. She believes in open-access to high-quality, evidence-based and research-informed materials for teachers so that they may support every student's right to read. More information on the resources she has co-created through AlphaGraphe is available on her website, www.childpsychologynorth.com and YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@alexpsyscolaire Associate Professor at the School of Speech-Language Pathology at Laurentian University and a speech-language pathologist for over 25 years, Michèle Minor-Corriveau's research focuses on written language disorders. Her research, conducted over nearly twenty years, focuses on academic achievement and the development of French-language skills. Committed to promoting effective literacy practices in minority French-language contexts, she is the co-founder of AlphaGraphe (www.alphagraphe.com) and co-author of numerous educational resources, including Oral Language at your Fingertips (OSLA, 2014). She has also adapted key reference works on reading instruction into French with the expressed authorization from leaders Louisa Moats and Louisa Spear-Swerling. Recognized for her pragmatic approach to teaching children to read, she is highly solicited by school boards across Canada and was awarded an Excellence in Teaching Award (2019).To read her blog posts, visit www.micheleminorcorriveau.com. All evidence informed ressources and are open-access. "The right to read depends on access to resources." Madore and Minor-Corriveau (c) 2023
Review :
"Your book brought me back to the good old days in the class room. I related so well as I have had many experiences, especially in primary grades where formative stuff is so impactful. Although high school teaching was a real blessing to me, so rewarding... primary school teaching gave me the most challenging and rewarding years of my career because of the very things you wrote about. I am grateful you asked me to witness your so important contribution to education and your passion for nurturing little people! You two are amazing!" - Karen Lindquist, Grade 13 (OAC) English Teacher, Ontario, Canada.
