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5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic, 8 Jun 2004

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This review is from: The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Brightest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn (Paperback)

This is a really fantastic book covering dyslexia, dyspraxia and ADD. This book gives a valuble insight to the workings of the dyslexic mind, how to assess and identify problem areas in your child/friend/relative - it even has lesson ideas! The whole book is very optimistic and helpful.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Why you should buy this book, 4 Mar 2006

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This review is from: The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Brightest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn (Paperback)

This books is an absolute must for anyone who suffers from dyslexia, dyspraxia, dysculculia or related related conditions.

Through its pages it shows suffers that far from being a disability it is fact a gift. It gives a first hand account of how the author overcame his severe dyslexia, but also gives suffers practical information on how to overcome their condition, it also explains in a clear and concise way how their condition affects them and other people.

This book is useful for adults or children. For anyone wanting to know why they are dyslexic and how they can be helped, this is a very down to earth, commonsense book. Read it - you will not be disaapointed.

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5.0 out of 5 stars I wholeheartedly recommend this book, 1 Feb 2009

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This review is from: The Gift of Dyslexia: Why Some of the Brightest People Can't Read and How They Can Learn (Paperback)

I've just finished reading part 1 of this book and quite frankly it has changed the way I perceive my "disability".

My official diagnosis came a little late in life, at 47:) Rather than feeling upset I am quite relieved - not because I have the condition, but because it explains so many things: the spelling and grammar issues, the disorientation and time-shift feelings, the daydreaming, my ability to "see" interconnections between subjects and to think outside the "box"(altered perception/disorientation, etc.).

The only problem I have with this book is the title. It should be called "The Gift of Intelligence". When will the "school curriculum" learn to encompass all intelligence and stop teaching purely towards false meritocracy (wages)?

This book provides clear anecdotal evidence, that people who have experienced first-hand the symptoms of dyslexia are of huge benefit to finding solutions. Therefore, having experienced the symptoms and traits described, obviously it is not pseudo-science, but actually a very accurate analysis of dyslexia. Therefore, I wholeheartedly recommend this book.

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