Unlocking Reading: The Dyslexics’ Handbook, demonstrates what Doug learned the summer between fourth and fifth grade: the lost key to reading and how to read words you already know how to say and use correctly.
Drawing from McGuffey's Eclectic Spelling Book, the added methodology demonstrates how words are divided into parts that can be sounded out and recognized as old friends.
About the Author
Author Doug Brice grew up with learning disabilities and struggled to learn to read until he was helped just one time, and that was all it took.
Doug Brice is an electrical engineer with two degrees: an AAEE and a BSEE in electrical and computer engineering. He was very successful in his chosen field of electrical and computer controls, with more than sixty years of electrical, electronic, and computer experience.
Doug also has Asperger’s syndrome, dysgraphia, and dyslexia. Learning to read caused him a great deal of difficulty. After he failed the fourth grade due to his inability to be taught to read, his aunt interceded, finding a special summer class for children with learning disabilities that he would be eligible to attend. It was conducted by a professor at Portland State College. The PSC professor had a different approach to teaching, and that method changed Doug’s entire life. With the knowledge he gained, he was allowed to stay with his classmates and move on to the fifth grade. Doug continued with those classmates through high school but was never exposed to that specialized reading methodology again. Had the schools he attended allowed such training, there is no doubt that he would have had a better learning experience.
Today’s schools continue to struggle and often fail to teach reading effectively. After Doug retired, he went looking for the information that he had been taught that summer so long ago. He found no trace of it. He decided to write a semi-autobiographical account of how he learned to read and succeed in life, and then went on to write this book that better describes and demonstrates this unique reading methodology. Anyone can learn to read or learn how to read words better using this scientific method.