Helping Children Overcome Reading Difficulties. The child's mother works with him or her at home, reading to the child and reading with the child. The child has a tutor at school. Though apparently learned today at great pain, tomorrow they will be gone. This digest will discuss children with reading difficulties and how these children can be helped to read and learn more effectively.
Most children begin reading and writing by the first, second, or third grade.
These same adults usually cannot understand why some children have not yet begun to read and write by the third grade. They have even more difficulty understanding how adults can function in our society with only the most rudimentary literacy skills. Dyslexia is perhaps the learning disability that is most widely known, primarily because of Barbara Bush's efforts to make adults aware of the problem of children with this and other learning disabilities. In the broadest sense, dyslexia refers to the overwhelming difficulty in learning to read and write by normally intelligent children exposed to suitable educational opportunities in school and at home. Just as educators and researchers cannot agree on a specific and precise definition of dyslexia, they do not agree on the cause or causes.