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Contents: Multilingualism, Literacy and Dyslexia: a challenge for educators. Section 1: Assessment - Dyslexia diagnosis in different languages; Assessing varieties of literacy and English; Bilingualism and literacy assessment; Bilingual children's profiles on dyslexia screening measures; Literacy development in emergent bilingual children. Section 2: Approaches and Strategies - Dyslexia and bilingualism: implications for assessment, teaching and learning; The effects of Literacy Hour and phonics teaching on poor readers' phonological and literacy skills: case studies of children with English as an additional language; Text genre, miscue analysis, bilingualism and dyslexia: teaching strategies with junior school pupils; Shared writing in the support of dyslexic children from different cultural backgrounds; Children's spelling errors in Welsh and English writing; Multilingualism and literacy in Sweden: multiple sources of reading difficulty; Using information and communications technology (ICT) to support bilingual dyslexic learners. Section 3: Policy and Interventions - The literacy acquisition of 'English-as-Additional Language' (EAL) learners: anti-racist assessment and intervention challenges; Maori culture and literacy learning: bicultural approaches; Bilingualism or dyslexia: language difference of language disorder?; Special education or second language learning: what do bilingual children need?; Rethinking teacher training programs for linguistically diverse students with dyslexia. Section 4: Dyslexia in Adults and University Students - Diagnosing multilingual adults; Dyslexia support in a multilingual university environment; Difficulties of English as a foreign language (EFL) for students with language learning disabilities (dyslexia); Identifying and helping learning disabled ESL students in a college intensive English programme. Section 5: Additional Language Learning - The neuropsychology of modern foreign language learning; Teaching modern foreign languages to dyslexic learners: a Scottish perspective; The language puzzle: connecting the study of linguistics with a multisensory language instructional program in foreign language learning; Dyslexia and modern foreign language learning: strategies for success; Structure multisensory teaching for second language learning in Israel; Application of the GAME approach to dyslexic learning in Israel; Dyslexia: does it mean anything to a foreign language teacher?; Using the Internet as a multi-media method of teaching a modern foreign language to people with dyslexia.