Leonardo da Vinci, Beethoven, John F. Kennedy, and Charles Schwab struggled with learning
disabilities.


Many children learn to read by the time they are seven or eight years old: but to become truly
literate, they will go on learning to read throughout their lives. Moira McKenzie


Good teachers are aware of the need for drawing children's attention to words and letter
combinations....At the same time, there is no substitute for children's own reading of real
books and their own questions about how words work. David Booth