Early Reading (was no subject)

[Robert Lawless]

Yes. This is also my understanding from research related to teaching my 
son with Down syndrome. And it worked. Robert.
> My own feeling, and I’ve done some homework on this as well as 
> conducted an applied project giving English Creole speaking kids 
> access to litaercy through their own language, is that English 
> speaking children of all stripes and colors would be best served if 
> initial reading were taught using any one of the phonemically based 
> systems, like ITA or UNIFON. This is certainly what the research 
> points to. The thing is, some of this research is somewhat old, dating 
> from the 60s, but as far as I know the essential finding has not been 
> refuted: children can acquire reading more quickly in a phonemically 
> based spelling, and those same children can generalize their reading 
> skill to traditional English spelling, so easily that they very 
> quickly surpass the reading skills of kids who are exposed only to 
> traditional spelling.
>
> Ron 

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