Charan did give it a try with Nina, but with little success. This coming together of my professional interest and at the same time wanting to teach our daughter to read led us to the writing of this developmentally appropriate reading course for teaching children to read. I have incorporated all my knowledge about children s learning and development in this program. The pages are clean, with little distraction. The material per page is limited.
Child gets a feeling of accomplishment from the very first lesson by reading little stories .
The techniques used combine phonics, high frequency word recognition and guided reading. We were fortunate to have some very prominent people in the field of education among our friends and who helped us liberally. We also tested the ideas in the book with many of my patients. We tested the program with my patients, many of whom had severe attentional and developmental problems and I am proud to say that this program is probably the best for this particular population. After we did the book, Charan began to work on a set of software to go with it.