Wiping Out Dyslexia with Enhanced Lateralization: Musings from My Forty Years of Wiping
Dorothy van den Honert comes from a long line of writers. After graduating from Vassar College, she married, produced five "little bookworms" and wrote a weekly column for the local newspaper. In 1972, when she began an eleven year stint teaching dyslectic junior high school students, she discovered bright kids with an oddity in language handling that clearly needed some science to explain it. She found the answer in neurology and promptly devised an inexpensive teaching technique to use the information. Retiring after 11 years, she continued to tutor a few dyslectic students privately, but retained her interest in public education with a 22 year stint on the Pittsfield School Committee.