Sally Shaywitz (Codirector of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention)
A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level
For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels, and for their parents, teachers, and tutors, this book can make a difference.
This book is a trusted source to which you can turn for information, advice, guidance, and explanation. In sum, here is cutting-edge research translated into an easy-to-follow plan of action offering help, and hope, to all who have reading problems, and their families.
Here are the tools that parents and teachers need to help the dyslexic child, age by age, grade by grade, step by step.
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What dyslexia is and why some intelligent, gifted people read slowly and painfully
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How to identify dyslexia in preschoolers, schoolchildren, young adults, and adults
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How to find the best school and how to work productively with your child's teacher
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Exercises to help children use the parts of the brain that control reading
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A 20-minute nightly home program to enhance reading
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The 150 most common problem words-a list that can give your child a head start
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Ways to raise and preserve a child's self-esteem aqnd reveal his strengths
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Stories of successful men and women who are dyslexic
