Overcoming dyslexia - Sally E 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