Unlocking Reading: A Dyslexic's Handbook - Paperback

by Douglas G. Brice (Author)

Why Unlocking Reading is important.

For the last century, our schools have failed to produce readers. Currently, only 12% of adults read one or more books per year. If reading is a problem, you tend not to do it. Reading can be fun, entertaining, and educational, but not for some. Being taught with the wrong method is the primary reason a person does not read well. Our schools have excelled at that. Consequentially, we have a functionally illiterate population. How do you make a reader out of a non-reader? The answer is simple. Somewhere along the line, the basics of how to read were lost. This book returns to the basics; it contains the nitty-gritty that has been missing from our schools. My book contains the lost scientific key to word segmenting and pronunciation. The book teaches you how to read the words you hear, say, and use.

This book will help the learning disabled. It can even inform the public about the rules of word formation and spelling. Simply put, the English language follows rules. For years that knowledge has been lost to the student. Now that lost expertise is available to everyone. That information and understanding are contained between the pages of this book. I realize that in many cases the book will first have to be read and taught to the student. There are many adults that have a loose handle on reading and they should be able to read, follow, and do the tutorials all on their own.

Now you are wondering about the author. First off I am a dysgraphic-dyslexic with other learning disabilities such as Asperger's. I learned to read by using the rules contained in my book. That turned my life around. After four years in the Air Force, I went back to school. I earned two degrees an AAEE and a BSEE. After I retired, I looked for that specific reading knowledge that I had learned; it was not available. With our schools failing to teach reading I decided to put my knowledge into print so that our students would once again learn to read.

I now read for fun. I read many books per year and I have written the book Unlocking Reading so that others might join me in the fun of reading. There is no question that if this reading method had been used from K to 8 there would be no shortage of readers. That is why you should read and do the tutorial.

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