Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition): Second Edition, Completely Revised and UpdatedFrom 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 |
Contents
| 3 | |
| 13 | |
Who Is Affected and What Happens over Time | 25 |
Why Some Smart People Cant Read | 36 |
Everyone Speaks but Not Everyone Reads | 45 |
Reading the Brain | 59 |
The Working Brain Reads | 71 |
Diagnosing Dyslexia | 91 |
Helping Your Child Become a Reader | 167 |
All Children Can Be Taught to Read | 169 |
Helping Your Child Break the Reading Code | 176 |
Helping Your Child Become a Reader | 198 |
Helping Your Child Become a Skilled Reader | 230 |
Teaching the Dyslexic Child to Read | 261 |
Helping Adults Become Better Readers | 288 |
Choosing a School | 294 |
Early Clues to Dyslexia | 93 |
Later Clues to Dyslexia | 102 |
Should My Child Be Evaluated for Dyslexia? | 120 |
Diagnosing Dyslexia in the SchoolAge Child | 131 |
Identifying the AtRisk Child | 142 |
Diagnosing Bright Young Adults | 150 |
Protecting and Nourishing Your Childs Soul | 309 |
A Person Like That | 345 |
Notes | 367 |
Acknowledgments | 395 |
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