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Overcoming Dyslexia : Completely Revised and Updated

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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 science-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
*;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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0385350325 / 9780385350327
Hardback
24/03/2020
United States
560 pages, 45 line drawings and charts in text
156 x 235 mm
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