Reading Difficulties

Reading difficulties can affect students from all economic, social and ethnic communities. In cases where students missed early language instruction in their education due to health or other reasons, they may never have learned some integral and basic reading concepts, such as the letter G has both a hard sound (as in gas) and a soft sound (as in gem). These "missing" skills need to be identified and remediated for the student to minimally "catch up" with his peers, let alone succeed in society and life. The Bright Sky Learning program identifies these missing skills through assessments and targets these exact skills for remediation.

Have you been told that your child has a reading problem or a learning disability? What about ADD or ADHD? Before you allow your child to be labeled and assigned to Special Education classes, please be sure that it is a correct action to take. Mistakes can be made in any field.

Our company employs no doctors and we make absolutely no medical recommendations, but we do strongly urge parents, before any labels of this type are accepted regarding your child, to ensure your child knows his or her phonics.

As an example, in 1929, Dr. Samuel Orton, a neurologist, was seeing patients that had been diagnosed with dyslexia. What he was finding did not make sense to him. Dr. Orton decided to send these patients for phonics instruction and it cleared up what was supposed to be dyslexia. Learning to read with proper phonics instruction, in these cases, certainly had a positive effect.

It is interesting to note that sixty-four years later, in an article printed in The Literacy Council newsletter, it was reported that "Whole-word memorization - memorizing words "holistically" as if they were pictures - is bad for children's reading. It can actually cause kids to have a reading difficulty - a dyslexia - that could have been avoided had they learned phonics first."

A test that can be administered demonstrating the above statement is the "Miller Word Identification Assessment." Bright Sky strongly recommends this test be given to your child, if you have any doubts whatsoever about your child being dyslexic.

Parents must be as informed as possible regarding all aspects of their child's education, especially as it relates to learning English and learning to read. Here are a few of the excellent books that are recommended reading on the subject:

The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America by Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt

The Hyperactive Hoax by Sidney Walker III

Is This Your Child? by Dr. Doris Rapp

Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto

Why Johnny Can't Read by Rudolf Flesch

Wake Up Everybody - There IS A Solution!

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