Dear Ron -- I wish I could express how much your book The Gift of Dyslexia has meant to me. It is like you showed me the missing parts of my life and now they fit in the right places. I'm so grateful for your research. Most books about dyslexia are not written to dyslexics - but yours resonated with me. Your simple explanation of the nature of `intuitive thought' and how a dyslexic knows the answers without knowing why connected my life the same way in the movie The Empire Strikes Back when Luke Skywalker musters the courage to fight but Darth Vader steps back and says: "You can't kill me, Luke ...I'm your father!" suddenly you understand back over three episodes why Vader never killed his son, you understand why Obi-Wan Kenobi was worried about Luke and the force - It's that kind of powerful understanding. Sorry I have to write using an analogy but it the way my brain works.

Other book insight - Your book explained why as an army Ranger pointman (LCo 75th Rangers 101st ABN) I knew where the enemy would be without being able to explain why. Dsylexia saved my life and the lives of my men. This book should be mandatory reading for every teacher, parent, writer, solider and anyone who thinks they may me dyslexic or ADD. I've ordered books for all my friends, clients and anyone interested in the subject.
Thank you again for your gift.
Regards,
Larry Chambers

PS: I almost forgot, today I'm a writer. Why tell you this becuase I couldn't read with comprhension until college. This year I'll top 1000 magazine articles and 50 published books. I created a ghostwriting business for those University of Chicago types that can't write below a PhD level and wonder why no one understands them. I'm currently finishing a book written in the style of a memoir and without saying or explain dyslexia showing it's effect and the resulting `shame' from growing up thinking your less than everyone one else.

This is a great book for anyone dealing with Dyslexia. It gives the tools you need to help get control of the differences you have in learning, and help overcome them to such a point, that it becomes the gift it was meant to be.

Being an adult dyslexic I found this book right on. This book explains how dyslexics are different and how they perceive the world around them. The last half of the book consists of exercises to help dyslexics learn with the rest of the population. Dyslexia is truly not a disability, but a superior mind that the general population does not understand.

First, I am not an author, not a doctor or any kind of specialist in the field of learning disabilities. I'm a 33 year old who found-out a year and a half ago that I am dyslexic. I have been doing a lot of reading and research in an attempt to seek answers for myself and help me understand better my condition. Also please note that English is a second language to me.

The book "The gift of Dyslexia" did help me understand better some aspects about my condition as well as other aspects of dyslexia that are not my own. I could relate to a lot of the examples of coping methods or compensating strategies and feelings of disorientations described in the book.

However one must keep in mind that this book relates the experiences and observations of one dyslexic person - Since there are no two dyslexics alike, no two dyslexics who share exactly the same set of symptoms, nor do the degree of the symptoms are the same in each case; I am somewhat sceptical regarding the author's claim to provide the absolute solution or answer to correct dyslexia. Although, I believe that the solution offered can definitely be of help to make some aspects of dyslexics lives easier - I believe that the solution provided may very well be more effective on children or younger dyslexics than on adults for whom breaking old coping habits may prove to be much more difficult to do. Perhaps even impossible in some areas, depending respectively on how deeply each of these coping habits have been assimilated.

I also disagree with the suggested idea of training, forcing dyslexics to read from left to right while it is proven and well known that non-dyslexic people do not read like so. It simply isn't natural. There are a number of other claims in the author's theory that are contradictive to scientific facts, information and observations that I've read elsewhere from reputable sources.

In conclusion, I would recommend this book if you are a dyslexic or know someone who is, and is looking to help his self-esteem and/or is looking to understand better this condition - But it does not provide a an absolute, "work-for-all" cure.

This book is based on one person's experience. That is not a very large sample. It seems to help some people, but certainly not for the reasons the authors state. People with dyslexia have problems with language and they can be taught to read and write well if their teacher has the ability to use a systematic, structured approach. I advise against this book because it could really lead you down the wrong path. Try Shaywitz's book on dyslexia instead. It is based on science and works for ALL.