Winn, Don M.
Summary: Keyed to current, cutting edge research, this user-friendly guide provides detailed assistance to parents and educators who want to help dyslexic children achieve their best life. Topics include signs of dyslexia parents can watch for at various ages, symptoms that warrant diagnosis by a professional, what to expect during the testing process, tips on working with the school to create an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cardboard Box Adventures Publishing 2019
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.9144 DAVBooks, Phyllis.
Summary: An easy to understand guide to methods and combinations of therapies available to help children conquer dyslexia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Square One Pub 2013
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Summary: "From one of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia comes the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help one understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plague American children today. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels--as well as for their parents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Summary: Blast Off to Reading! is a complete reading program for those students who have dyslexia or for those who simply struggle to read. This Orton-Gillingham based program will systematically take your student from the most basic units of sounds to multi-syllable, complex words in 50 lessons. Each lesson is created to include a new sound or rule and a reading task followed by several exercises,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Creative Dragon Press 2015
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Summary: An educational psychologist and family therapist draws on his own experiences as a dyslexic to help parents understand their own dyslexic child and their fears, frustrations, and goals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.92 FRABraun, Hannah
Summary: "Learn to Read for Kids with Dyslexia is the definitive activity workbook to improve phonemic awareness, dysgraphia, and auditory processing disorder (APD) for kids ages 7-12. For kids with an official dyslexia diagnosis, or kids struggling with dyslexia related symptoms, learning to read can be challenging. Using a targeted approach to skill development, Learn to Read for Kids with Dyslexia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zephyros Press 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Eight-year-old Ishaan can't seem to get anything right in class and gets into more trouble than is parents can handle. They pack him off to boarding school to 'be disciplined, ' and his art teacher, Nikumbh, realizes that something is wrong and sets out to discover what it is. With time, patience, and care, Nikumbh helps Ishann find himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: M. Evans & Co. 1992
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Summary: "Finally, a groundbreaking book that reveals what your dyslexic child is experiencing--and what you can do so that he or she can thrive More than thirty million people in the United States are dyslexic--a brain-based genetic trait, often labeled as a "learning disability" or "learning difference," that makes interpreting text and reading difficult. Yet even though children with dyslexia may...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Pub. Group 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Frustrated by her dyslexic daughter's struggles at a failing inner-city school, Jamie Fitzpatrick tries to enroll her somewhere else. When this fails, Jamie recruits a disillusioned but caring teacher to try to fix the broken school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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Summary: "Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2015
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC HUNSummary: John Read fights to make it through the 5th grade, battling a teacher who thinks he's lazy and a bully who constantly mocks him. John's mother takes matters into her own hands and researches the root of the problem, finding that John is dyslexic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Starlight Home Entertainment 2007
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Summary: "Maple Mehta-Cohen has been keeping a secret: she can't read all that well. She has an impressive vocabulary and loves dictating stories into her recorder--especially the adventures of a daring sleuth who's half Indian and half Jewish like Maple herself--but words on the page just don't seem to make sense to her. Despite all Maple's clever tricks to hide her troubles with reading, her teacher...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2021
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Summary: One in five American children has trouble reading. In Overcoming Dyslexia, information about reading problems and proven, practical techniques that, along with hard work and the right help, can enable anyone to overcome them is offered. Here are the tools that parents and teachers need to help the dyslexic child, age by age, grade by grade, step by step.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 2005
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Summary: Dyslexia has affected many generations of Gina's family. After analyzing the experiences and learning patterns of her grandmother and several other family members, Gina has discovered ways to survive this disability. This book looks at the symptoms, behaviors, and effects of dyslexia and is handy for those experiencing this disability. However, it is also most helpful for anyone who parents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: AuthorHouse 2014
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Summary: "This book shares interviews and insights from adults with dyslexia, sharing the obstacles they have faced in life and the things that helped them overcome them. Based on lived experience, these accounts provide practical tips and advice for those supporting young people with dyslexia and those who have been recently diagnosed"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2022
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Summary: Katie always thought her dad was smart--he is one of the busiest attorneys in town. People are always asking him for advice. She has been a bit confused ever since asking him for help with her weekly spelling list. How can her very smart dad struggle with one of her spelling words? This definitely didn't make sense. The word Mississippi has changed everything ... This frank and thoughtful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Pickle Press, an imprint of Sourcebooks Jabberwocky 2018