Reversals : A Personal Account of Victory over Dyslexia by Eileen M. Simpson (1998, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374523169

ISBN-139780374523169

eBay Product ID (ePID)1072009

Product Key Features

Number of Pages246 Pages

Publication NameReversals : a Personal Account of Victory over Dyslexia

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAudiology & Speech Pathology, Cognitive Psychology & Cognition

Publication Year1998

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaPsychology, Medical

AuthorEileen M. Simpson

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight10.6 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN91-019839

Dewey Edition21

Reviews"Essential for libraries with parent guidance collections, and highly recommended for all who have struggled to help children who cannot read."--Library Journal "A book that is an act of grace."--Ashley Montagu "Takes the reader to the heart of an alien condition; reading can offer no richer experience."--Frances Taliaferro, Harper's

Dewey Decimal362.1/968553/0092 B

SynopsisThere was something wrong with my brain. What had previously been a shadowy suspicion that hovered on the edge of consciousness became certain knowledge the year I was nine and entered fourth grade. I seemed to be like other children, but I was not like them; I could not learn to read or spell. In this first account of what it is like to grow up dyslexic, Eileen Simpson vividly recreates the frightening world of a child living in the limbo of illiteracy. Simpson's lack of reading skills so exasperated her teachers and relatives that they began to think she was mentally retarded. She could get lost walking to the grocery store; at times she felt as if she had no control over her speech. It was not until she was twenty-two that her future husband, the poet John Berryman, finally named her mysterious ailment. Simpson intersperses her narrative with nontechnical explanations of dyslexia and what is being done to treat it. But despite growing public awareness and advances in research, dyslexia remains a frustrating and frightening disorder.

LC Classification NumberRC394.W6S55 1991