quantum

Author: Shaywitz, Sally
Isbn 13: 9780375400124
ISBN: 0375400125
Pub Date: Apr 1, 2003
Publisher: Random House
Shipping Weight: 1.75 pounds
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From one of the world's leading experts on dyslexia, the most comprehensive and practical book yet to help us understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plague American children today. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs - many of them in her own laboratory - Dr. Shaywitz demystifies the subject of reading difficulties and explains how a child can be helped to become a good reader. She discusses early diagnosis in young children as well as the diagnosing of older children, young adults, and adults. Dr. Shaywitz explains why some bright adults can read only very slowly, and what they can do about it. Her book makes it clear how the latest research, including new brain imaging studies, is uncovering the mechanisms underlying dyslexia and has led to effective treatments for each age group. Dr. Shaywitz instructs parents in what they can do year-by-year, grade-by-grade, step-by-step for a dyslexic child. She lays out a home program for enhanced reading; guides parents in choosing the best school for their child and in working with teachers; and suggests ways of raising and preserving the child's self-esteem. She provides exercises, teaching aids, information on computer programs, and many other invaluable resources. In addition, her book corrects such popular and harmful myths as the belief that dyslexia is primarily a male problem, that children with dyslexia see words backward, that dyslexia is linked to intelligence. She shows us how, although dyslexia cannot be overgrown, its effects can, with careful planning and hard work, be overcome. Dr. Shaywitz lifts the barrier of ignorance surrounding dyslexia and replaces it with the comfort of knowledge. 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.
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