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Title: Wrong information....too bad
Review: Unfortunately the author put incorrect information in this book. Too bad I really enjoyed it.I know someone in the Speech and Language Field, and her jaw dropped at some of the things she read about. A good majority of the section on "reading" is off. The author states numerous falsehoods, essentially stating the most research supports the "whole language method", when in fact the National Reading Panel in 2001 states the exact opposite. In addition, practically everything the author said about dyslexia is wrong. To those of you familiar with dyslexia, you know that it is a deficit in phonological processing and that the best treatment targets the deficit. The author recommends whole language which does not work for a child with dyslexia...EVER!!! Frustrating!!!With that being said, I enjoyed some other parts of the book, which did have correct information. It is just hard to trust most of the book when you know there are some elements of it that are way off.
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