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THE DYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE (REVISED AND UPDATED)

Fernette F. Eide Brock Eide

Unlocking the Hidden Potential of the Dyslexic Brain

This new edition contains groundbreaking scientific research and diverse profiles of dyslexic individuals. Translation rights are available.
What if we viewed dyslexia as a learning and processing style, rather than a learning disorder?

Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide use their impressive background in neurology and education to eschew the typical deficit-based approach to dyslexia. When people hear the word "dyslexic," they typically just think of children struggling to read and write. However, many of those children grow up to be incredibly successful in a variety of careers due to their entirely different pattern of brain organization and information processing that prioritizes divergent thinking. For example, individuals with dyslexia outperformed their non-dyslexic peers in multiple studies on three-dimensional spatial reasoningone of the reasons why so many dyslexics are successful engineers. Approximately 20% of the U.S. population has dyslexia, and The Dyslexic Advantage shows how each one displays amazing skills in material, interconnected, narrative, or dynamic reasoning, leading to incredible pattern detection, episodic memory, and creativity.

The revised and updated edition of THE DYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE includes twenty rich new profiles of individuals who have dyslexiaincluding an astrophysicist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, an Olympic gold medalist, the technical advisor for the Jurassic Park movies, and many more. Meanwhile, the enormous amount of research on dyslexia in the last ten years provides valuable new insights for educators, CEOs, and anyone who wants to take advantage of the complimentary nature of different cognitive styles. Blending personal stories with hard science, THE DYSLEXIC ADVANTAGE (REVISED AND UPDATED) provides empowering advice on how parents and individuals with dyslexia can capitalize on the strengths of the dyslexic learning style.

Drs. Brock and Fernette Eide are leading experts in the fields of dyslexia and co-founders of the nonprofit Dyslexic Advantage and the social purpose corporation Neurolearning.com. They have worked as consultants to the President's Council on Bioethics and as visiting lecturers at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. The first edition of their book, The Dyslexic Advantage, was an international bestseller.
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Published 2023-02-14 by Plume Trade Paperback

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Based on hard science and on personal narratives from 20 people, this book is a comprehensive must-have title for educators, parents, and those who process things through a dyslexic lens.