Sarah Forteath

Business Development Manager, Library & Information Services

15 July 2015

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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

Edinburgh Reads – what we set out to do

All age groups

Promote benefit &

joys ofreading

Staff training &

coaching

Symbiotic partnerships

Funding &

sponsorship

Provide Cultural, learning

& literarylife

Affect performance

Embed RDin

everythingwe do

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.

What’s next…

Every child a library member

Make the library the go to space after school……