"Our son is doing miraculously well"
I recently received the following heartening report from a parent which I wanted to share with you.
"From the time he entered kindergarten, our son, Jack, was struggling. In reading, he guessed at words by looking at the first one or two letters and in writing, his scrawls were undecipherable. We were baffled.
Testing told us that his verbal and non-verbal skills were extremely high but he was trailing behind his piers in both reading and writing. This combined with a diagnosis of ADD, we began to investigate private schools for children with learning disabilities. During a visit with Jack’s psychiatrist, Dr. Jonathan Slater, we were advised that the best thing we could do for our son was to jump-start his reading and writing skills.
He told us about Dr. Blank’s Phonics Plus Five program. He said, "Trust me. You must try Dr. Blank’s program. If you stick with it, Jack will not only catch up with his first grade classmates, but he should be ahead of his class by the end of first grade."
We were skeptical at first, but once I saw the clarity and ease of Dr. Blank’s program, I began to look forward to spending time with Jack implementing the Phonics Plus Five program. Remarkably, Jack enjoyed the program as well. He never felt intimidated by the content. He quickly moved through the lessons and his skills just took off.
Now seven months later, Jack is doing miraculously well. He’s reading and writing above grade level. He’s constantly picking up other books and to our delight, his self-esteem has soared.
Jack’s teacher stopped me the other day to say that she’d received a call from the dean of the private school for children with learning disabilities regarding Jack as a prospective candidate.She smiled broadly and said, "In my opinion, he shouldn't be a candidate. Jack is doing so well. His reading skills are excellent. And by the way, his handwriting is phenomenal. How did you do it?"
I handed her a copy of Dr. Blank's book, The Reading Remedy, and said, "It’s all in here."
