The Dyslexic Advantage

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 reasoning—one 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 dyslexia—including 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.