Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and ADHD

Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and ADHD: A Global Perspective uniquely incorporates dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD into one volume, offering practical advice on how to manage each of these disorders. McBride combines a solid research base with interviews with specialists in learning disabilities, as well as parents, teachers, and students with personal knowledge of each difficulty from six continents. The innovative cross-cultural focus of the book is emphasized in the introduction, which is followed by one chapter each on the basics of each of these learning difficulties and another three chapters on their remediation. The book goes on to cover topics such as comorbidities across learning or other difficulties, learning of multiple languages, facilitating self-esteem, and enhancing reading comprehension and writing composition in the face of dyslexia, dysgraphia, and ADHD. Appendices with short, practical tips on learning, multi-media resources, and ways to test and train cognitive-linguistic skills are included as an additional resource. Coping with Dyslexia, Dysgraphia and ADHD: A Global Perspective is intended for practitioners, teachers, parents, and those with any or all of these learning difficulties. University or postgraduate students who wish to understand more about dyslexia, dysgraphia, and/or ADHD will also benefit from the clear analysis. With this book, the reader will not only come to understand the fundamental nature of these learning difficulties, but will also get to know the people whose lives are so deeply affected by them.

Catherine McBride is Professor of Developmental Psychology at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She has served as President of both the international Society for the Scientific Study of Reading and the Association for Reading and Writing in Asia. She is an expert on reading development and impairment across languages, scripts, and cultures.

Chapter 1: Understanding learning disabilities around the world Chapter 2: Understanding Dyslexia Chapter 3: What is dysgraphia? Chapter 4: Basics of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) Chapter 5: Comorbidity: having more than one learning or mental health difficulty Chapter 6: What is the impact of having to learn multiple languages or orthographies on literacy learning? Chapter 7: Best practices in remediating dyslexia around the world Chapter 8: Suggestions on how to help those with dysgraphia difficulties Chapter 9: Helping children with ADHD Chapter 10: Reading and writing to learn: suggestions for helping children with reading comprehension and writing composition Chapter 11: Self-esteem and learning disabilities Chapter 12: Where do you go from here? Afterword Appendices References Index