The 9 Main Causes of Reading Difficulty

by David O. Morgan, Sarah Forrest, Ian Norris (Illustrator)

Do you have a child consistently guessing short, common words instead of reading them? Or maybe there is some skipping of words and even whole lines of text. Perhaps reading practice often ends in a sulk or tantrum, even though you only try to help? And are you seeing a bright child, with masses of potential, starting to feel stupid just because of their weak reading and spelling? These are some of the baffling patterns that parents and teachers have to deal with each day, usually without any explanation for what they are seeing or a solution they can apply. Learning to read should be an exciting and fun time together and definitely can be just that, but it often ends up as a daily stress. Worse still, around one in six children never learns to read accurately, according to the regular OECD surveys. All learning and education is just neurology. When you get the neurology right, learning can become faster and a lot more fun. In this book, David and Sarah explain the neurological patterns that seem to drive the different issues faced by children learning to read, and suggest practical solutions to each of them. There are nine patterns in all, with several clearly linked to the established symptoms of dyslexia. David and Sarah's Easyread System team work with thousands of children and they routinely aim for 100% success each year by tracking these nine potential issues for each child.

72 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2018

Reviews

[Chase · Rating 4 out of 5]

If you want to know why traditional reading curriculum is not helping your child learn to read this is valuable resource for understanding what might be going on neurologically and why you child's brain might just be wired slightly differently when it comes to learning how to read.

This book offers ways to diagnose these 9 main causes of reading difficulty and has some solutions but you really need to get their Easy Read program to make a lasting impact. Which is not necessarily a bad thing, we have been having great success so far with our daughter and their program. But this book is not a guide book to fix the difficulties your child may be having, it is much more of a diagnostic tool.

I appreciated learning more about what was going on in her brain so I am better able to help support the program.

[Paige Crowson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this to try to help my obviously struggling child with reading. I didn't find what I was looking for.