Trauma and Reading
Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2019 9:46 pm
This is a very important and powerful read. Here is the reality of life chances if children don't learn to read - that is, they are not taught to read:
https://www.corelearn.com/trauma-and-reading/Trauma and Reading
Posted December 3, 2019
Dr. Steve Dykstra, reprinted with permission
Don Meichenbaum, one of the world’s leading experts on trauma and violence, and one of the most influential mental health professionals of the last century, said one thing is more important to traumatized children than anything else. More important than therapy, more important than social programs, more important than anything else. The research shows that the single most powerful predictor of their ability to overcome the trauma and survive their circumstances is the ability to read. If they can read, they have a chance to find success in school and overcome all those terrible things in their lives. If they can’t, school will only be another source of pain and failure added to all the other sources of pain and failure. If they can read, they can benefit from therapy and everything else we may try to do for them. If they can’t read, all of that is a waste of time.