Author 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 science-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 in high school, in college, and across adulthood, including a new chapter on dyslexia in post-menopausal women * Rich information on ongoing advances in digital technology that have greatly increased dyslexics' ability to help themselves * New chapters on diagnosing dyslexia, choosing schools and colleges for dyslexic students, and the co-implications of anxiety, ADHD, and dyslexia * Extensively updated information on helping both dyslexic children and adults become better readers * New information on how to identify dyslexia in all age ranges * Exercises to help children strengthen the brain areas that control reading * A detailed home program to enhance reading * Ways to raise a child's self-esteem and reveal her strengths * Stories of successful men, women, and young adults who are dyslexic