Light in the Darkness of Reading Failure

About the Book

Classroom teachers, mentors, tutors, and parents desperately need help in understanding how and where learning to read goes wrong. They need tools to help the failing reader overcome the problems contributing to their reading failure. They need ways to bring fun into the reading experience for children who are lost in the classroom.

Light in the Darkness of Reading Failure is the first book that provides a medical/educational understanding of why a lot of today's children are failing in reading. More that that, it contains easy diagnostic procedures and fun teaching tools. To date, there are no practical guides providing what Light in the Darkness of Reading Failure does. The need for a medical/educational approach that can turn reading failure into success is answered in this book.

About the Author

Janet E. Powell has been teaching reading from the readiness level through adult, in private and public schools in The United States and in remedial reading classes at Owairaka School and her private clinic in Auckland, New Zealand. A pilot teacher with Head Start, Janet was also the first evaluation teacher at Palmer Memorial Cerebral Palsy Center in Tennessee, taught remedial reading at Waianae Elementary School in Hawaii and workshops throughout Oahu, in public and private schools.

She presented graduate teacher seminars at The iUniversity of Auckland/i and represented New Zealand Education Institute's publication branch, Education House, Ltd., putting American reading materials in New Zealand schools at the primary level. There, she closely monitored Dr. Marie Clay's research that resulted in U.S. Reading Recovery. She also worked with Dr. Alison Hunter, a leading pediatrician on The North Island, teaching some of her patients who were failing in reading. Janet taught remedial reading classes for Auckland Prison inmates, eighteen to twenty-two years of age, on a research project connecting criminal activity with educational failure.

She has been a keynote speaker at international conferences on reading and represented the U.S. in Russia and Lithuania as a Learning Disabilities Citizen Ambassador Delegate.

She won a special award from Educational Television Network, Inc., and is the creator of the future Practical Reading Therapist echelon in education, a medical/educational discipline presented in this book, that she hopes will impact schools, tutors, mentor programs, home schoolers, and special agencies. She currently lives in Makaha, Hawaii, tutors, and speaks throughout Oahu about teaching reading.

This book represents a new era guide for everyone involved with the complex behavior of reading.