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Parents and teachers play a huge role in determining a child's future outcome.
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"Perhaps most important, the struggling reader needs someone who will not only believe in him but translate that belief into positive action. I have witnessed far too many instances where the most loving and well-intentioned parents or teachers have taken an uncharacteristically passive stance and assumed that somehow 'things will work out'...the reality is that in the overwhelming majority of cases, the only way things will improve is if a knowledgeable and caring adult takes the lead and actively creates change, " explains Sally Shaywitz, MD of the Yale Center for the Study of Learning and Attention.
Shaywitz, Sally. Overcoming Dyslexia. (2003): 173. Vintage Books: A Division of Random House, Inc. New York.
Any type of learning struggle could be substituted for the words reading problem and/or dyslexia; supportive, knowledgeable adults can make all the difference.
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