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Overcoming Dyslexia Audiobook Summary

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 evidence-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 across all ages
   • Rich information on ongoing advances in digital technology that have dramatically increased dyslexics’ ability to help themselves
   • New chapters on diagnosing dyslexia, choosing schools and colleges for dyslexic students, the co-implications of anxiety, ADHD, and dyslexia, and dyslexia in post-menopausal women
   • Extensively updated information on helping both dyslexic children and adults become better readers, with a detailed home program to enhance reading
   • Evidence-based universal screening for dyslexia as early as kindergarten and first grade – why and how 
   • New information on how to identify dyslexia in all age ranges
   • Exercises to help children strengthen the brain areas that control reading
   • Ways to raise a child’s self-esteem and reveal her strengths
   • Stories of successful men, women, and young adults who are dyslexic

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Overcoming Dyslexia Audiobook Narrator

Sally Shaywitz, M.D. is the narrator of Overcoming Dyslexia audiobook that was written by Sally Shaywitz, M.D.

About the Author(s) of Overcoming Dyslexia

Sally Shaywitz, M.D. is the author of Overcoming Dyslexia

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Overcoming Dyslexia Full Details

Narrator Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
Length 24 hours 8 minutes
Author Sally Shaywitz, M.D.
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 30, 2024
ISBN 9780593149232

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The publisher of the Overcoming Dyslexia is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593149232.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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