Overcoming Dyslexia: Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated

4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars | 2,195 ratings

Price: 23.63

Last update: 06-20-2024


Top reviews from the United States

Kasey Davis
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book
Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2024
It is a great read if you are interested in Dyslexia.
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Dyslexia
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2024
Great information and easy to read. A great tool for reading teachers.
CT
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2024
Lots of great content! A must read for every educator.
MeeGee
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent ideas!
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2024
I highly recommend this book! She is an expert in the field so why not learn from her!
Amazon Customer
4.0 out of 5 stars Good but SO LONG
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2023
I had to read this book for a course study and oh my gosh!!!! It has great narratives from personal experiences. It also breaks down language hear A LOT in early childhood reading development. It explains a lot and even goes into detail of what goes on in the brain of a dyslexic person. I had to remove a star because it's just so freaking long and she repeats herself a lot. Yes, it is good information she's repeating but, must go faster!
Amazon Customer
5.0 out of 5 stars Every Dyslexia Family and Teacher Should Own
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2023
This is a must buy book. I have purchased 5 because I buy them for the parents of every student who is diagnosed with dyslexia. It reveals the newest science about dyslexia, symptoms, practical steps, and hopeful outcomes with getting the necessary support. Dr. Shaywitz has been a forerunner in dyslexia research and national dyslexia legislation.
Colleen
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive Resource for Parents, Educators and Professionals Working with Students
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2011
I love this book. My daughter has acquired severe dyslexia from her traumatic brain injury. This book has helped me work with my daughter with great success. As a special/general educator and licensed cognitive brain trainer, I talk to a lot of parents who have children with Dyslexia. Dyslexia is such a broad term anymore. Sally helps to break down the confusion and provides you with research based viewpoints. In her book she explores Dyslexia and focuses on the main group of children who are Dyslexia due to weak phonological awareness. Her research is backed by her brain images of the participants in her studies. She then provides you with some great research based resources to help overcome the Dyslexia. It was very interesting to read about Dyslexia and how people with Dyslexia process differently in their brains. Sally shows you how normal readers brains will light up during a reading exercise and compares it to people with Dyslexia. She then goes a step further to show you how the brain lights up, similar to normal readers, after intense interventions towards strengthening the underlying weakness with the underlying phonological awareness/analysis skill. As a brain trainer and educator, I began applying the approaches that Sally mentions in her book, with the students I work with and have had fantastic results. I work with students to assess all of their cognitive skills, strengthen them and then work with phonological awareness interventions along with visual kinesthetic cognitive strategies. I am very thankful to have someone like Sally researching on Dyslexia and proving through science that you can help students with this condition learn to read.
Book Mom
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Important Book for Dyslexia
Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2018
This is the most important book you can purchase to understand dyslexia. My husband and I both listened to the book in our automobiles within months of hearing our daughter was diagnosed with dyslexia. I quickly purchased the hard copy, and completely highlighted important points, and took notes! notes! notes!!! I refer to these notes and this book almost every week to make sure I stay on target for her reading and writing education. One thing that I refer to all of the time is about 15 techniques/exercises this book mentions to use. Our school already has used this book as the foundation of it's special reading program for a number of years. It is an award-winning school. As suggested in this book, we had our daughter tutored last summer 3 times a week by an experienced tutor who uses a dyslexia-approved curriculum listed in this book. We continued to follow this book's recommendations all year. Results will absolutely vary, but my daughter has gone from the bottom 5% in reading at her grade level (in other words, she couldn't read) to the 60th percentile of her grade level (she can now read signs, menus, directions, books). She still has a way to go, but she can now read and write! This is the foundational book to help! A friend of mine also used the book's suggestions without hiring a tutor, (she tutored him herself as best she could) but switched her son to a school that used dyslexia-approved curriculum, with an experienced teacher (as suggested by this book) and her son's reading jumped two grade levels, from a pre-1st grade level to entry third grade level in one year.

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