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50% of American adults are unable to read an eigth-grade-level book. - Jonathon Kozol, Illiterate America It is estimated that 15-20% of American students may have dyslexia. - US Department of Health and Human Services 44% of parents who noticed their child exhibiting signes of difficulty with learning waited a year or more before acknowledging their child might have a serious problem.- Roper Starch Poll - Measuring Progress in Public and Parental Understanding of Learing Disabilities 27% of children with learning disabilities drop out of high school. - 23rd annual Report to Congress, US Department of Education, 2001 It is estimated that more than $2 billion is spent each year on students who repeat a grade because they have reading problems. - US Department of Health and Human Services It is estimated that the cost of illiteracy to business and the taxpayer is $20 billion per year. - United Way, "Illiteracy: A National Crisis" Approximately 50% of the nation's unemployed youth age 16 to 21 are functionally illiterate, with virtually no prospects of obtaining good jobs. - US Department of Health and Human Services 60% of America's prison inmates are illiterate and 85% of all juvenile offenders have reading problems. - US Department of Education
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Success, Failure By Ascribe, 4/22/2002 13:39 BLOOMINGTON, Ind., April 22 (A Scribe Newswire) -- The abilities or deficits that determine children's academic success or failure in the early years of elementary school are the subject of a landmark research project at Indiana University. Early results clearly favor the phonics approach over the controversial whole-language method of early reading instruction...
For example, he said the Benton results provide very clear evidence favoring the phonics approach over the whole-language method of early reading instruction. From the first look at the data it was evident that, whatever other strengths or weaknesses a child might have, his or her appreciation of the breakdown of words into component sounds, and the relation between sounds and letters, is the single strongest predictor of success or failure in early reading.
The early results also cast serious doubt on another popular idea, that poor understanding of spoken language, especially under difficult listening conditions, is a major cause of many language and reading problems. Watson said, "To our surpise, multiple tests showed the children's ability to understand spoken English to be virtually unrelated to any areas of academic achievement, although reading success could be accurately predicted from a number of other measures. We are advising against therapies that assume ear training to be an apppropriate remedial approach to reading and language disorders."
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