I have had a couple of people find me by searching on something like: dyslexia: what to thell the child.
Mel Levine says it so clearly:
Kids need to know themselves, and they need to know what to work on to help themselves. They need and deserve to understand clearly the reasons for any academic problems they are expereincing. Too often students fantasize about their deficiencies, and their unguided fantasies tend to be far too global, fatalistic, and self-damning. Struggling students feel a sense of relief when they have a clear picutre of their personal strengths and weaknesses...It is soothing and empowering for students to have the exact terms, the specific words that describe their assets and deficits. It is really hard to work on or even think about something when you don't even know what to call it.--p. 278, A Mind at A Time.
For an older child, you might want to consider Keeping A Head in School
This book was written to help older students (from 11 years and up) understand and appreciate their own distinct learning profiles. It offers specific alternatives to approaching schoolwork and different ways to bypass or strengthen their weaker functions . Audio tapes of the text, read by Dr. Levine, are also available.
LD online has a longer list.
There doesn't seem to be a good "picture book" format that explains the new scientific findings.
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