The Literacy Center Central Connecticut State University continues to combat illiteracy by offering help for children with reading disabilities. The problems of illiteracy begin with a frustrated child having difficulties in reading and giving up, believing he or she will never catch up with peers. The clinicians are advanced graduate students enrolled in RDG 596 Clinical Practices in Reading.
Clinicians tutor the students on a one to one basis.
Clinics are offered at the reading center on the campus of CCSU and, when necessary, in local schools. Clinics have been held in New Britain, Plainville, Waterbury, Winsted and Hartford. Clinicians test the students to identify their reading disability, then work with them to overcome it. A case report is submitted to the student's regular classroom teacher at the end of the term with a series of recommendations to foster the educational growth for that specific child. Also, parent conferences are held at the end of the clinic session.