Reddit reviews Overcoming Dyslexia: Second Edition, Completely Revised and Updated

This will probably get buried but...

It is a huge misconception that people with learning disabilities are less intelligent due to their disability.

Giving someone extra time to write an exam isn't necessarily making it less stressful for them. Take for example dyslexia, a learning disability. People with dyslexia have poor phonological processing skills, which leads to poor decoding skills when reading - this means it takes them longer to read. It doesn't mean it takes them longer to understand, just simply that they need longer to see the letters in a word and form a word to attach meaning to. Giving people with dyslexia extra time to write a test can be compared to giving a blind person a braille version of an exam, or giving a deaf person a sign language interpreter. It doesn't mean the test is any easier or less stressful for them.

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(I'm taking a class about learning disabilities for my degree right now, that's my textbook.)
edit: clarification

I've been a special education teacher for 10 years and I haven't found anything like what you are describing. However, two books that helped me understand what some of my students have to deal with are Overcoming Dyslexia and Look Me in the Eye

Also the Wrightslaw website that deals with Special Education Law. I've used that quite a bit

This is a copy paste of an email I've sent a couple of friends. My child has dyslexia and I found these resources useful. The Amazon links are not affiliate links or anything, just links to the books. The first two books were especially intersting and useful, and will apply even as an adult!

Dyslexic Advantage - by Brock and Fernette Eide


Overcoming Dyslexia - by Sally Shaywitz - the first part of the book is the most interesting - it's the science of dyslexia - the second is strategies for teaching/learning


Some other books:
I read them all - at least mostly - but I can't separate the info in my memory to remember which was best at what

• http://www.amazon.com/Bright-Kids-Who-Cant-Keep/dp/1609184726
  
• http://www.amazon.com/The-Dyslexia-Empowerment-Plan-Confidence/dp/0345541235
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Smart-but-Scattered-Revolutionary-Executive/dp/1593854455
  
• http://www.amazon.com/Right-Brained-Children-Left-Brained-World-Unlocking/dp/0684847930
  
  Some good websites:
  
  
• http://dyslexia.yale.edu/
  
• http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10435.aspx
  
• http://www.dyslexia.com/library/symptoms.htm
  
• https://www.understood.org/en
  
• https://www.understood.org/en/tools/tech-finder
  
• http://www.dyslexiaresourcegroup.com/
  
• http://dyslexia.yale.edu/EDU_signs.html < the yale site is good in general
  

Overcoming Dyslexia is the best book on the subject.

edit: dyslexia is not a disease.