Overcoming Dyslexia: Second Edition, Completely… by Sally Shaywitz, M.D. · Audiobook preview

Overcoming Dyslexia: Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated
Authored by Sally Shaywitz, M.D., Jonathan Shaywitz MD
Narrated by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.

0:00 Intro
0:03 Overcoming Dyslexia: Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated
1:01 Part I: The Nature of Reading and Dyslexia
11:01 Outro

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BOOK DESCRIPTION

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 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

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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS

Language: English
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
Published on: March 24, 2020
ISBN: 9780593149232
Duration: 25 hr, 56 min
Genres: Education / Special Education / Learning Disabilities, Family & Relationships / Learning Disabilities, Science / Life Sciences / Neuroscience