reading disability

Helps teachers diagnose various types of reading difficulties and provides strategies for helping students overcome them.

Describes strategies and techniques that teachers can use to help struggling readers, providing scenarios and examples, along with information on reading process systems, the ways that readers solve words, assessment ideas, and related topics.

Able to read and write at only a second grade level, sixth-grader Sam Mott considers himself dumb until he is promted to cooperate with those who think something can be done about his problem.

Discusses a learning disability of approximately one in every ten people, including Albert Einstein, Thomas Edison, and how to cope with it.

A guide for parents who want to help their children learn to read, discussing the controversy between the whole language and phonics approaches to teaching reading; taking a grade-by-grade look at how to help children in preschool through third grade; and providing information about reading difficulties and disabilities.

Presents the report of a committee convened by the National Academy of Sciences to examine the prevention of reading difficulties, identifying potential obstacles that keep young children from becoming skilled readers, and describing the conditions under which reading is most likely to develop easily.