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Overcoming Dyslexia
A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level
by Sally Md Shaywitz
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Paperback: 432 pages
Publisher: Vintage; 1 (January 04 2005)
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Chapter 2: Should My Child Be Evaluated for Dyslexia?
I now want to gather together all the clues that combined will serve as an early-warning system for recognizing dyslexia. The clues will help you answer the question: Should my son or daughter (or I) be evaluated for dyslexia?

Author Q & A
Q: What is dyslexia? A: Dyslexia refers to a difficulty in learning to read in a person who has good intelligence, strong motivation, and who has received appropriate teaching. Logic says such a child or adult should have learned to read and yet he or she



Book Description

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

About the Author

Sally Shaywitz, M.D.Sally Shaywitz, M.D.

Sally Shaywitz, M.D., is a neuroscientist, a professor of pediatrics at Yale, and codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and of the National Reading Panel, mandated by Congress to determine the most effective reading programs. She has written for Scientific American and the New York Times Magazine.

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