8. Good News Ninety percent (90%) of children with reading difficulties will achieve grade level in reading if they receive help by the first grade.” www.schwablearning.org/articles.aspx?r=349 “ Is it a Reading Disorder or Developmental Delay”, by Susan Hall
9. Sobering News If help is given in fourth grade, rather than in late kindergarten, it takes four times as long to improve the same skills by the same amount. www.schwablearning.org/articles.aspx?r=349 “ Is it a Reading Disorder or Developmental Delay”, by Susan Hall
13. “ Dyslexia is a weakness in a sea of strengths.” Sally Shaywitz, M.D. “ The strengths are as important to find and address as the deficits….All too often we focus on the deficit and not the asset, and we really need to focus on that as well.“ E. Emmerson Dickman, J.D., President of IDA