reading disability

A young boy describes his friendship with Anna, a girl with dyslexia, discussing the challenges she faces and how he encourages her in the things she is good at doing.

Presents practical guidelines, program descriptions, advice on resources, and strategies that can be used by parents and caregivers to provide children, from birth through the first years of formal training, with a solid basis upon which to build reading skills.

Able to read and write at only a second grade level, sixth-grader Sam Mott considers himself dumb until he is prompted to cooperate with those who think something can be done about his problem.

A handbook for kids with dyslexia and other reading difficulties on successful reading strategies and the use of technology to improve reading skills.

Provides information about dyslexia, looks at what scientific breakthroughs have revealed about the reading disorder, and presents a step-by-step program parents can follow to help their dyslexic children, or that older students and adults can use to develop reading skills.