Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition)
Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated
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Publisher Description
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
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Yale neuroscientist Shaywitz demystifies the roots of dyslexia (a neurologically based reading difficulty affecting one in five children) and offers parents and educators hope that children with reading problems can be helped. Shaywitz delves deeply into how dyslexia occurs, explaining that magnetic resonance imaging has helped scientists trace the disability to a weakness in the language system at the phonological level. According to Shaywitz, science now has clear evidence that the brain of the dyslexic reader is activated in a different area than that of the nonimpaired reader. Interestingly, the dyslexic reader may be strong in reasoning, problem solving and critical thinking, but invariably lacks phonemic awareness the ability to break words apart into distinct sounds which is critical in order to crack the reading code. The good news, Shaywitz claims, is that with the use of effective training programs, the brain can be rewired and dyslexic children can learn to read. She walks parents through ways to help children develop phonemic awareness, become fluent readers, and exercise the area of the brain essential for reading success. Early diagnosis and effective treatment, the author claims, are of utmost importance, although even older readers can learn to read skillfully with proper intervention. Shaywitz's groundbreaking work builds an important bridge from the laboratory to the home and classroom. 34 line drawings and graphs
Customer Reviews
Superb & science-based book on dyslexia
Did you know that physicians, neuroscientists, and others know how to teach your dyslexic child to read well? As Yale med school professor Dr. Sally Shaywitz explains in this book, multisensory structured language instruction is what's needed and, sadly, few public school teachers provide it or have learned how to provide it. Yale, Johns Hopkins, University of Colorado, University of Texas, Wake Forest, and many other universities have contributed to the excellent NIH research on the subject. Dr. Shaywitz bridges the divide between the language of science and the language of parents. Don't let your child with dyslexia struggle, fail, and feel stupid. This book explains the responsible science on effective reading instruction. Be your child's advocate and your child WILL learn to read well. Don't let anyone, including a teacher, convince you to "wait and see." The ideal time to intervene is age 4 or 5. Get going!
Great book!
This is a very informative and helpful book
Limited Perspective
This book totally dismisses the idea of visual dyslexia, which goes against some current research on the subject.