A review by marciay
Overcoming Dyslexia: A New and Complete Science-Based Program for Reading Problems at Any Level by Sally Shaywitz

2.0

I was so excited for a revised copy of this book anticipating that perhaps the author would be integrating research about identifying dyslexia in a student who is learning multiple languages simultaneously or methods for teasing out dyslexia from language acquisition. Instead, she completely ignores that this is a real confounding factor in identifying dyslexia in a large portion of the population. Even after reviewing the research of how dyslexia is found in a wide berth of individuals who speak different languages. She very clearly comes at identifying dyslexia through a medical model wherein identification weighs much heavier on clinical perception than through direct assessment of the individual. Furthermore, she pushes forward very ill-informed opinions as she talks about RTI as if it were a curriculum or instructional method instead of a system of support independent of a chosen curricula. I'm so disappointed by this revision as a practitioner who read this as an attempt to grow my own clinical skills for identifying dyslexia.