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Empowering Parents
An Engaging New PBS Show for Parents of Beginning Readers
Lindamood-Bell Press Release
April 5, 2005
If you have a
child who is a struggling reader, your family is not alone. Learning to
read is a challenge for almost 40 percent of kids, and an even bigger
challenge for their parents. Empowering Parents, a new PBS television
special narrated by Al Roker, visits schools in Huntingtown, Maryland,
and Portland, Oregon, to help families identify early signs of reading
problems and find ideas for getting their kids the help and support
they need.
Lindamood-Bell provided the intervention
to the young boy featured in segment 5:
(Find
out how the brain of a kid with reading problems, like Jonathan,
handles reading differently than the brain of a strong
reader.)
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here to view video
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