Living With Dyslexia

Dyslexia can be described as a disorder characterized by a persistent problem with learning and accurately and/or fluently applying reading and/or spelling at word level. This disorder can, if not recognized and treated, lead to major stagnations in school functioning and form a lifelong source of emotional damage. It is therefore of great importance to do everything in guidance practice, science and at the level of education and health care policy to deal (learn) well with this problem.

This book deals with dyslexia in a broad perspective. After an exploratory introduction, the chapters are divided into five parts: dyslexia in young children, dyslexia in primary education, dyslexia in secondary education, dyslexia in adults and dyslexia policy. The reader is thus given an excellent overview of what is happening in the field of dyslexia at the beginning of the twenty-first century in the Dutch language area.