Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz; Jonathan Shaywitz
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
Call Number: Teaching Collection, Floor 2 LB 1050.5 .S42 2020
ISBN: 9780385350327
Publication Date: 2020-03-24
Overcoming Dyslexia by
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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