Karen's Book Nook

While attending a reading professional development session this week, this book, Overcoming Dyslexia: A new and complete science-based program for reading problems at any level, by Sally Shaywitz, MD was suggested. I checked it out today and have started it already. Should be a quick and interesting read.

From Publishers Weekly

Yale neuroscientist Shaywitz demystifies the roots of dyslexia (a neurologically based reading difficulty affecting one in five children) and offers parents and educators hope that children with reading problems can be helped. Shaywitz delves deeply into how dyslexia occurs, explaining that magnetic resonance imaging has helped scientists trace the disability to a weakness in the language system at the phonological level. According to Shaywitz, science now has clear evidence that the brain of the dyslexic reader is activated in a different area than that of the nonimpaired reader.