Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition)

Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition)
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 434
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ISBN-10 : 9780307558893
ISBN-13 : 0307558894
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Book Synopsis Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition) by : Sally Shaywitz, M.D.

Download or read book Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition) written by Sally Shaywitz, M.D. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-24 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the world's preeminent experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book available on identifying, understanding, and overcoming reading problems--now revised to reflect the latest research and evidence-based approaches. Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder on the planet, affecting about one in five individuals, regardless of age or gender. Now a world-renowned expert gives us a substantially updated and augmented edition of her classic work: drawing on an additional fifteen years of cutting-edge research, offering new information on all aspects of dyslexia and reading problems, and providing the tools that parents, teachers, and all dyslexic individuals need. This new edition also offers: • New material on the challenges faced by dyslexic individuals across all ages • Rich information on ongoing advances in digital technology that have dramatically increased dyslexics' ability to help themselves • New chapters on diagnosing dyslexia, choosing schools and colleges for dyslexic students, the co-implications of anxiety, ADHD, and dyslexia, and dyslexia in post-menopausal women • Extensively updated information on helping both dyslexic children and adults become better readers, with a detailed home program to enhance reading • Evidence-based universal screening for dyslexia as early as kindergarten and first grade – why and how • New information on how to identify dyslexia in all age ranges • Exercises to help children strengthen the brain areas that control reading • Ways to raise a child's self-esteem and reveal her strengths • Stories of successful men, women, and young adults who are dyslexic


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