I finally understood how my child saw numbers and I had direction to help teach my child and help the school system understand the way modify their teaching tools to make my kid successful. The techniques for overcoming dyslexia help use the visual mind (or strong imagination depending on the age of the dyslexic) to overcome learning struggles.

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It is also important for them to know that having a problem with reading, writing, spelling, or math doesn’t mean they are dumb or stupid. It made me glad that I homeschool, because if my daughter does have dyslexia, she has fewer bad habits to overcome than she would have had in a traditional school environment. What I loved about this book is how it tries to make you feel the way a Dyslexic feels, showing, in detail, how a dyslexic perceives things, and this is made possible because the author himself is a dyslexic.

These methods have now transformed the lives of tens of thousands of dyslexic, dyscalculic, dyspraxic, an ADHD children and adults all over the world - including mine and my wife's. Do you ever get the feeling that you’ve read something and is not gone in, you reread it again and it still doesn’t go in? It has also given me methods and exercises that I can use to help them harness the power of their gift of dyslexia and use it to overcome their learning challenges.

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This is possible because this is skill does not use our slow linear approach of thinking, but another very sophisticated non-linear approach.

Explaining how many dyslexics have other problem areas such as Mathematics (dyscalcula) or memory laps (what is perceived as poor working memory) and problems with cross stimuli (ADD/ADHD) or auditory discrimination (distinguishing between similar letter-sounds. There are one or two exercises that might be helpful, but other than that, not much I feel will help my boy. The Gift of Dyslexia presents a new, proven technique for correcting the perceptual barrier to reading.