Overcoming Dyslexia

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050082
ISBN
9780679781592
Grade AD
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Charlotte Mason
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Description

This book is for anyone who cares about reading, and wants to understand and help those with reading difficulties. It enables parents and educators to learn not only what science teaches about the needs of struggling readers, but how to access their strengths as well. We have entered a new era in which there is now a science of reading. It is an era of enormous hope. 414 pgs, pb. ~Amber

Publisher's Description of Overcoming Dyslexia

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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    Product Format:Paperback
    Brand:Vintage Books
    Grade:AD
    ISBN:9780679781592
    Length in Inches:9.25
    Width in Inches:6.125
    Height in Inches:1.5
    Weight in Pounds:1.7
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