Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level - Hardcover

Shaywitz, Sally E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375400125 ISBN 13: 9780375400124

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Synopsis

Overcoming Dyslexia From a leading expert comes the most comprehensive book yet to help readers understand, identify, and overcome reading problems. Dr. Shaywitz instructs parents in what they can do for a dyslexic child, lays out a home program for enhanced reading, and provides exercises, teaching aids, and invaluable resources. Full description

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Review:

In this gem of a book, Dr. Sally Shaywitz uses her voice, her images, her brain and yes, her heart to shine a piercing and clarifying light on what we so inadequately call dyslexia. What is more, she shows how almost everyone can overcome it. Daniel D. Federman, M.D.,
Fascinating. . . . Shaywitz has illuminated the inner workings of dyslexic minds. Time

An important book.... For the first time, scientists are understanding how the brain works...in the act of reading. Front and center now is Sally Shaywitz. The Baltimore Sun

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"In this gem of a book, Dr. Sally Shaywitz uses her voice, her images, her brain-and yes, her heart-to shine a piercing and clarifying light on what we so inadequately call 'dyslexia.' What is more, she shows how almost everyone can overcome it." --Daniel D. Federman, M.D.,

"Fascinating. . . . Shaywitz has illuminated the inner workings of dyslexic minds." --Time

"An important book.... For the first time, scientists are understanding how the brain works...in the act of reading. Front and center now is Sally Shaywitz." -The Baltimore Sun

About the Author:

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 forScientific American and the New York Times Magazine. Dr. Shaywitz lectures throughout the country and appears regularly in national media. She lives with her husband in Woodbridge, Connecticut.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375400125
• ISBN 13: 9780375400124
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416