Dyslexia

by Margaret J. Snowling

The extensively re-written and updated edition of this highly acclaimed text provides a synthesis of the latest research on the cognitive defects of dyslexia and reviews evidence concerning its biological bases.

168 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 1987

Reviews

[Renita · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good insight to Dyslexia tendencies.

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If a child can't learn, you're not teaching properly.
-Margaret Bird Rossin

[B99 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for information
Quite a dry academic read

[Anna rzk · Rating 5 out of 5]

‚Teach the stuff and cut the fluff’,Decent introduction .

[Pam · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a really hard book to rate-overall and as a book to dip in and out of, it is 5 star, as a book to read from cover-to-cover, as you can tell from the length of time that it took me to plough through it all, it is more like 3stars. There are times within the book that I read passages and then didn't have a clue what I'd just read. Possibly this is because I came at this as a teacher and specialist dyslexia teacher, rather than as a psychologist.

Overall, the coverage Snowling achieves in the book is phenomenal and it gives an excellent overview of all the different theories surrounding dyslexia and outcomes.

If you want a 'parent-friendly' grounding on dyslexia, I'd go for Niel Mackay or others, as a scholarly look at dyslexia and related research, you would be hard pushed to find better than Snowling.

[Jules · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was an informative read.