Dyslexia Books for Parents

This book contains the latest information about reading problems and proven, practical techniques that, along with hard work and the right help, can enable anyone to overcome them.

Here are the tools that parents and teachers need to help the dyslexic child, age by age, grade by grade, step by step.

Blending personal stories with hard science, The Dyslexic Advantage provides invaluable advice on how parents, educators, and individuals with dyslexia can recognize and use the strengths of the dyslexic learning style in: material reasoning (used by architects and engineers); interconnected reasoning (scientists and designers), narrative reasoning (novelists and lawyers); and dynamic reasoning (economists and entrepreneurs.) 

While other books tell you what dyslexia is, this book tells you what to do.

Dyslexics’ innate skills, which may include verbal, social, spatial, kinesthetic, visual, mathematical, or musical abilities, are their unique key to acquiring knowledge.

Figuring out where their individual strengths lie, and then harnessing these skills, offers an entrée into learning and excelling.

By keeping the focus on learning, not on standard reading the same way everyone else does, a child with dyslexia can and will develop the self-confidence to flourish in the classroom and beyond. 

This book outlines a unique and revolutionary program with a phenomenally high success rate in helping dyslexics learn to read and to overcome other difficulties associated with it.

This new edition is expanded to include new teaching techniques and revised throughout with up-to-date information on research, studies, and contacts.

This straightforward guide provides the essential information for parents and advocates to understand US law and get the right educational entitlements for a child with dyslexia.

Using case studies and examples, this book demonstrates clearly how to apply the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to the unique requirements of a dyslexic child.

It offers simple, intelligible help for parents on how to coordinate successfully with their child’s school and achieve the right services and support for their dyslexic child; up to and beyond getting an effective Individual Education Plan (IEP).

A practical, step-by-step information on accurately identifying, assessing, and using evidence-based interventions with individuals with dyslexia.

Addressing the components that need to be considered in the assessment of dyslexia—both cognitive and academic—this book includes descriptions of the various tests used in a comprehensive dyslexia assessment along with detailed, evidence-based interventions that professionals and parents can use to help individuals struggling with dyslexia.