Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level

FOR EVERYONE WHO STRUGGLES TO READ!

Clear, practical, science-based information and advice for successful results

One in five American children has trouble reading. But they are not stupid or lazy. In Overcoming Dyslexia, Dr. Sally Shaywitz, codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention and a leader in the new research into how the brain works, offers the latest information about reading problems and proven, practical techniques that, along with hard work and the right help, can enable anyone to overcome them. Here are the tools that parents and teachers need to help the dyslexic child, age by age, grade by grade, step by step.

--What dyslexia is and why some intelligent, gifted people read slowly and painfully

--How to identify dyslexia in preschoolers, schoolchildren, young adults, and adults

--How to find the best school and how to work productively with your child’s teacher

--Exercises to help children use the parts of the brain that control reading

--A 20-minute nightly home program to enhance reading

--The 150 most common problem words–a list that can give your child a head start

--Ways to raise and preserve a child’s self-esteem aqnd reveal his strengths

--Stories of successful men and women who are dyslexic

Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-394) and index.

FOR EVERYONE WHO STRUGGLES TO READ!

Clear, practical, science-based information and advice for successful results

One in five American children has trouble reading. But they are not stupid or lazy. In Overcoming Dyslexia, Dr. Sally Shaywitz, codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention and a leader in the new research into how the brain works, offers the latest information about reading problems and proven, practical techniques that, along with hard work and the right help, can enable anyone to overcome them. Here are the tools that parents and teachers need to help the dyslexic child, age by age, grade by grade, step by step.

--What dyslexia is and why some intelligent, gifted people read slowly and painfully

--How to identify dyslexia in preschoolers, schoolchildren, young adults, and adults

--How to find the best school and how to work productively with your childs teacher

--Exercises to help children use the parts of the brain that control reading

--A 20-minute nightly home program to enhance reading

--The 150 most common problem words-a list that can give your child a head start

--Ways to raise and preserve a childs self-esteem aqnd reveal his strengths

--Stories of successful men and women who are dyslexic

Sally Shaywitz, MD, is Professor of Pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine and codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention. A member of the National Reading Panel and the Institute of Medicine of the Academy of Sciences, and chosen as one of Americas Top Doctors by Castle Connolly, she lectures regularly throughout the country and has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America and The Today Show.