Dyslexia (Beginner's Guides)

✍ Scribed by Nicola Brunswick

• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 233
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Winston Churchill, Andy Warhol, Walt Disney, Tom Cruise, Agatha Christie, Pablo Picasso. All famous and successful in their chosen professions. All dyslexic.Includes chapters on the causes and symptoms of dyslexia, the importance of sound and vision to reading, the incidence and manifestation of dyslexia across alphabetic and non-alphabetic languages, and lists of dedicated dyslexia resources - support associations, websites, and assistive technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Illustrations......Page 14
What is dyslexia?......Page 16
How we learn to read and spell......Page 35
The importance of sound in reading......Page 62
Visual skill and reading ability......Page 79
Is dyslexia universal?......Page 98
Language on the brain......Page 122
A problem of faulty genes?......Page 145
Assessing and managing dyslexia......Page 154
Further reading......Page 176
Glossary......Page 184
Appendix A Support organisations......Page 193
Appendix B Journals......Page 195
Appendix C Tests for dyslexia......Page 198
Appendix D Assistive technology......Page 206
Appendix E Websites......Page 222
Index......Page 224