Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition)

Name: Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition)
Brand: Penguin Random House NZ
SKU: 9780679781592
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Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated

By Sally Shaywitz

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In Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz, the author explores the intricacies of dyslexia, offering insights drawn from recent scientific research. This comprehensive guide provides practical strategies for parents, educators, and individuals confronting dyslexia, aiming to support effective reading and learning. It serves as an empowering resource for understanding and navigating the challenges associated with dyslexia.
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This book may appeal to you if you are seeking a comprehensive and updated guide to understanding and managing dyslexia. It offers practical strategies for educators and parents, combined with the latest scientific research, to help support individuals with dyslexia in overcoming challenges and achieving success.

Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition)

One of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia delivers this comprehensive, up-to-date book to help readers understand, identify, and overcome reading problems. Dr. Shaywitz translates cutting-edge research into an easy-to-follow plan of action offering help and hope. High school & older.

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Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition) by Sally Shaywitz is the second edition of a comprehensive guide from one of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia. This most up-to-date and practical book focuses on identifying, understanding, and overcoming reading problems and is now revised to reflect the latest research and science-based approaches.

This completely revised and updated edition provides a deep dive into dyslexia, the most common learning disorder affecting about one in five individuals of all ages and genders. Shaywitz offers insightful updates, drawing on an additional fifteen years of cutting-edge research. The book is replete with new information on dyslexia and reading disorders, providing valuable tools for parents, teachers, and dyslexic individuals themselves.

This edition includes:

New material on the challenges faced by dyslexic individuals across all ages.
Rich information on ongoing advances in digital technology that have dramatically increased the ability of dyslexics 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 dyslexic children and adults become better readers, with a detailed home programme 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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Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition) by Sally Shaywitz is praised for its comprehensive insight into dyslexia. Reviewers highlight Shaywitz's exceptional understanding of the condition and her advocacy for early recognition and policy change. The book is noted for its clarity and effectiveness in explaining how dyslexics can overcome challenges, offering hope to many. It is considered an important work that sheds light on the brain's role in reading, emphasising the need for a better understanding of dyslexia's impact on intelligence and learning.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780679781592

Publisher: Random House USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 January 2005

Country: United States

Imprint: Random House USA Inc

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 30.0mm

Width: 155.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 652g

Pages: 608

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Education & Reference Non-Fiction Penguin Books Sally Shaywitz

About the Author

SALLY E. SHAYWITZ, M.D., is the Audrey G. Ratner Professor in Learning Development at Yale University and co-founder and co-director of the Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity. She is the author of more than 350 scientific articles and book chapters, and the creator of the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreenTM, a tool used by teachers to reliably screen young children for dyslexia.Overcoming Dyslexiawon the Margo Marek Book Award and the NAMI Book Award. Dr. Shaywitz is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and is regularly selected as one of the "Best Doctors in America." She has testified before committees in both the Senate and the House. She lives in Woodbridge, CT. JONATHAN SHAYWITZ, M.D., is a board-certified psychiatrist. He was the director of the Anxiety Disorders Program at Cedars Sinai in Los Angeles, and more recently the Medical Director of Behavioral Health at Mission Hospital Laguna Beach and Mission Hospital Mission Viejo.