This week there's more news to share, news that's dear to my heart. For many years, while living in Oyster Bay, New York, I had a private practice for children having difficulty in learning to read. Most were not what you’d call dyslexic, though a number of them—all boys—confused the letters ‘b’ and ‘d’ and didn’t recognize that ‘p’ was standing on its ‘long leg.’ To them the letters were mirror images of one another.
So we set to work, tracing and writing large on the blackboard, linking the shapes of the letters with the sounds they made -- the Orton-Gillinham method -- while encouraging their parents to read to them so they could hear the beauty of the language and enjoy the magic of children's literature.
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