in private school,if you don`t receive an intervention that is based on the empirical research of phonemic awareness instruction,neurological multisensory instruction in blending and segmenting for reading and spelling,intense work in phoneme grapheme correspondence training,the money is wasted. Like Dr Reid Lyon stated in 1995,if we knew as much about aids or cancer as we know about reading and spelling and LD AND WE DID NOTHING,THERE WOULD BE CAUSE FOR MEDICAL MALPRACTICE.. Years ago I saw a parent bring a report card in my clinic with 2 kids that were in an LD school in Belleville Ont.that gave the children an A in Reading ,Language Arts,they were both unable to read or spell and the parents were spending $40,000.00 a year.I have been one of those parents in Ontario.I saw the light when I ran into a school that was truly honourable for Dyslexic kids. Education can be a perfect place for con artists,there is no protection for parents.For those of you reading this blog,if you have a kid with any kind of language processing problem,there is research that shows that 95% of the kids can completely overcome these problems. What is needed; A-Teacher Training in explicit knowledge in how to teach Reading-40% learn without a problem,for 60% of the students,they will struggle without proper research based instruction.If you aren`t good at it by grade 3 and have not reached fluency,there is a much greater chance you will fail or drop out of high school.Spelling and writing are every bit