TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shaywitz,Sally E.
AU  - Shaywitz,Jonathan,.
TI  - Overcoming dyslexia: a major update and revision of the essential program for reading problems at any level, incorporating the latest breakthroughs in science, educational methods, technology, and legal accommodations
SN  - 0385350325 : HRD : 
AV  - LB1050.5 .S53 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf, 
KW  - Dyslexia
KW  - Learning disabilities
KW  - Family & Relationships
KW  - Special Education
KW  - Education
KW  - Reading disability
N1  - First edition published in 2003; Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-568) and index
N2  - "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." - B&T
ER  -