Anyone can learn to read. Stories of proof from twenty years literacy tutoring dyslexic students.
After a disastrous year as a middle school English teacher, Cathrine Christine Corbett spent the next twenty years as a literacy tutor, working with students with dyslexia and other reading issues the school system had written off—some as young as seven, some as old as seventy. Along the way, she learned that with the right approach, nearly anyone can learn to read. Equal parts memoir, case study, and quiet manifesto, this book is for parents wondering if their child will ever love to read, for teachers who need a more effective approach, for adults who have spent a lifetime compensating in silence, and for anyone who has ever needed to hear it's not too late. Cathrine shares stories of individual students with dyslexia, autism, ADHD, and other reading issues: a car genius, a 70-year old maintenance worker, a self-made millionaire, a prison inmate, several eight-year-olds who had given up hope, a future poet laureate, a young adult with Down syndrome. All learned to read. Written in the tradition of Sally Shaywitz's Overcoming Dyslexia and Meghan Buchanana's GGRIT: Choose to Rise—but told through the eyes of the tutor who made the breakthroughs happen.
