- May 14, 2017, 8:44 pm
TO DELAY IS A CRIME!
Reading researches say the ideal window of opportunity for addressing reading difficulties is during their kindergarten and first grade (5 to 7 years old). The National Institutes of Health state that 95% of poor readers can be brought up to their exact grade level if they receive effective help early. While it is still possible to help an older child with reading, those beyond third grade ( Gr.3) require much more intensive help. The improvement you may achieve from late comers may be incremental but this step is so much better and braver than seeing exponential damage ruin the future of your child ( Hall and Vail).
The longer you wait to get help for a child with reading difficulties, the harder it will be for that child to catch up. If help is given in fourth grade, rather than in late kindergarten, it takes four times as long to improve the same skills by the same amount.
If your child has trouble in the early levels of school, GET HELP IMMEDIATELY! Do not wait to see if the he or she will grow out of it. PREVENTION IS ALWAYS BETTER THAN REMEDIATION otherwise the only option your child will be stuck into is having an overly dependent parasitic relationship with tutors oftentimes this is more expensive than the total amount of tuition fee you paid for the whole school year.
Let it be known that learning differences don't disappear spontaneously. If you worry that receiving extra help will make your child feel different, FORGET IT. Your child already feels different by virtue of what he can and cannot do in and outside the classroom.
(...to be continued)