COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED From one of the world s preeminent experts on reading and dyslexia the most comprehensive up-to-date and practical book available on identifying understanding and overcoming reading problems--now revised to reflect the latest research and evidence-based approaches. Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder on the planet affecting about one in five individuals regardless of age or gender. Now a world-renowned expert gives us a substantially updated and augmented edition of her classic work: drawing on an additional fifteen years of cutting-edge research offering new information on all aspects of dyslexia and reading problems and providing the tools that parents teachers and all dyslexic individuals need. This new edition also offers: - New material on the challenges faced by dyslexic individuals across all ages - Rich information on ongoing advances in digital technology that have dramatically increased dyslexics ability to help themselves - New chapters on diagnosing dyslexia choosing schools and colleges for dyslexic students the co-implications of anxiety ADHD and dyslexia and dyslexia in post-menopausal women - Extensively updated information on helping both dyslexic children and adults become better readers with a detailed home program to enhance reading - Evidence-based universal screening for dyslexia as early as kindergarten and first grade - why and how - New information on how to identify dyslexia in all age ranges - Exercises to help children strengthen the brain areas that control reading - Ways to raise a child s self-esteem and reveal her strengths - Stories of successful men women and young adults who are dyslexic