Why do children learning to read English take more than two years to attain basic literacy, while children learning to read phonetic languages such as Italian achieve the same level within a year? Why are the effects of dyslexia so much more limiting for readers of English than for those reading phonetic languages? Over 40% of people in English - speaking countries are functionally illiterate, and the implications of...
Chris Stephen - It was my middle sister, Alexandra, who taught me how to read. She was herself an avid bookworm. Literacy was considered extremely important in our family as we had a strong literary heritage, including such people as Henry John Stephen, who wrote Stephen's Commentaries on the Laws of England, which became the leading legal textbook for over 150 years, and Sir Leslie Stephen, who...
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