Expands and elaborates on the concepts put forth in the author's 1984 best-seller, Smart But Feeling Dumb, which sold more than 100,000 copies worldwide

A fuller and more comprehensive title than Smart But Feeling Dumb, covering more learning disorders and with a new body of patient vignettes and state-of-the-art data further verifying the author's earlier work

Written for both lay and professional readers, the book includes a rich and fascinating new body of favorably responding patient-voiced improvements and case studies that serve to illuminate this treatment approach, while also finally unmasking and clarifying dyslexia's mystifying complexity since first recognized in 1896

Dyslexia by Any Other Name.- The Bottom Line.- A Bit of History-and Discovery.- The Turning Point-Solving The Dyslexia Riddle.- Listening to Dyslexics: My Clinical Path Proved Key to Discovery.- The Castro Family-Batting 1,000.- Kathy: The Intriguing Complexity of Dyslexia.- Asking the Right Questions: The Self-Diagnostic Test.- Kathy and The Mistaken Theories of Dyslexia.- A Theory's Validity is Entirely Dependent on its Explanatory Capability.- Some Important Questions and Answers.- Another Remarkable Case-Highlighting the Dyslexia/ADHD/Phobia Connection.- Making the Connections-An Introductory Overview.- New Insights into ADD/ADHD.- Three Steps Towards Conviction: The CVS/Phobia Link.- The Phobia Connection-A Full House: Three Adults and Two Children Referred For Anxiety Disorders.- The More, The Merrier-Better Understanding Phobias and Panic Disorder.- The Reading Process in Dyslexia.- The "Super Ten" Basic Mechanisms Explaining The Dyslexia Syndrome.- All The Many Therapies.- FourSteps to a Certain Diagnosis.- "I Didn't Want Medical Treatment, But..."- Depression vs. Dyslexia Without "Dyslexia".- Real Smart Drugs and Treatment.- An Effective Partial Medical Treatment for Autism or Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD).- Kathy's New Beginning.- Summary.- Closure: The End is Just a New Beginning.