The Upside-Down Kids: Helping Dyslexic Children Understand Themselves and Their Disorder
Grade 3-8-- Levinson cleverly combines the profiles of eight learning-disabled children with a slightly humorous mystery, written on a second-grade reading level and published in typeface that is easy for dyslexics to read. Such readers may discover aspects of themselves in these students and will learn that they are not dumb, that their problems are not their fault, and that they can be helped. ``Dyslexic'' is used to encompass the many symptoms of learning disabilities. The book is well organized and clearly written, but the black-and-white cartoons add little. Levinson's theory of causation, which has not gained general medical acceptance, is explained in the last chapter. Four of the six books in the suggested reading list are by this author. Other recent books on the subject are Dyslexia (Watts, 1991) by Elaine Landau and Kathleen Dwyer's What Do You Mean I Have Learning Disability? ( Walker, 1991), a photo essay for grades 1-4. --Martha Gordon, South Salem Lib . , NYCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.