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...suspect your child has dyslexia, it's never too early to do something about it. Talk to your child's teacher and educate yourself about the laws that govern special education. The earlier you intervene, the better your child's chances of becoming a fluent reader. --By Sora Song...
...need information to be your child's chief advocate. Susan Hall and Louisa Moats' Parenting a Struggling Reader is a good place to start. If you have Internet access, check out interdys.org ldanatl.org ldonline.org ld.org and schwablearning.org
...says Dr. Sally Shaywitz, a Yale neuroscientist who has written a fascinating new book, Overcoming Dyslexia (Alfred A. Knopf; April 2003), that details the latest brain-scan research--much of it done in her lab. "The good news is we really understand the steps of how you become a reader and how you become a skilled reader," she says...
...kids call tricks, or rules, for reading. (Among the most important and familiar: the magic e at the end of a word that makes a vowel say its name, as in make or cute.) A particularly good route to fluency is to practice reading aloud with a skilled reader who can gently correct mistakes. That way the brain builds up the right associations between words and sounds from the start...
Contrary to what faultfinders like Bloom believe, Rowling possesses the one trait that all great writers share: the ability to make the reader want to turn the page. While I've always admired Rowling as a writer, when I read of her emailing Catie Hoch and reading the fourth book aloud to her on the phone, my respect for Rowling as a person increased enormously. Please, Ms. Rowling, ignore the critics! Your understanding of the human condition clearly surpasses theirs. ELAINE PAPPAS-PUCKETT Laguna Niguel, Calif...