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This is the book you've been looking for!!! This is "the Bible" for those of us who are, (or who are working with) dyslexic people. This book is written so naturally that you feel like you are part of a dialogue at this very moment. Dr. Shaywitz knows what our questions are and she answers them! Better, she anwsers with Scientific backup! She offers directions on specific places to go for more help; help that works. I have bumbled along as a parent advocate on my own for five years now...how I wish that I had had the benefit of this book from the very beginning. You can! BUY IT! Buy multiples. SHARE IT...especially with the people at school . I have given copies to my school's Kindergarten teacher, and Special Education department first, because that is where I think it will help the most children immediately. Every educator should read this book, every parent should read this book and certainly anyone with a concern about reading should read this book. I won't go on about the entire content; for that read one of the editorial reviews. This one comes from the heart!

This is a scientific understanding by author Sally Shaywitz of why a struggling reader may be having so much trouble. I think most importantly the author discusses all kinds of various practical treatments to ease the challenge. She iterates that dyslexia is not some affliction of a few. It's simply a neurological difference that makes phonemic awareness more challenging for some people and is actually quite common but in varying degrees.

The author stresses the importance of early diagnosis. Wow did that strike a personal nerve for me. Unfortunately most schools do not recognize these issues until a child is so far behind, remediation is far more difficult than it should be if a child is identified even as early as preschool. Comforting though are the author's ideas to help even dyslexic adults learn to read better. From a personal perspective my child did struggle and thanks to several books like "Reading Reflex: The Foolproof Phono-Graphix Method for Teaching Your Child to Read by Carmen McGuinness (Author), Geoffrey McGuinness (Author)" and the "Lindamood-Bell" reading program, my child was able to learn to read without the severe frustration that can accompany the process for dyslexics.

This "New and Complete Science-Based Program for Overcoming Reading Problems at Any Level" is exactly that - complete - there simply is no need to use a litany of books on the topic if you get this one.

My friend, who's dyslexic, learned to sound out words in grade school, but she had never read a book until the age of 38, after finding the book, "The Gift Of Dyslexia". The way her brain works may have been described well in the book, "Overcoming Dyslexia", but Ron Davis' book is much more helpful overall. Also, the book "Right-brained Children in a Left-Brained World" by Jeffrey Freed was helpful and sometimes contradicts what Dr. Shaywitz suggests in her book.