Empowering Parents
An Engaging New PBS Show for Parents of Beginning Readers

Lindamood-Bell Press Release
April 5, 2005

 

If you have a child who is a struggling reader, your family is not alone. Learning to read is a challenge for almost 40 percent of kids, and an even bigger challenge for their parents. Empowering Parents, a new PBS television special narrated by Al Roker, visits schools in Huntingtown, Maryland, and Portland, Oregon, to help families identify early signs of reading problems and find ideas for getting their kids the help and support they need.

Lindamood-Bell provided the intervention to the young boy featured in segment 5:

(Find out how the brain of a kid with reading problems, like Jonathan, handles reading differently than the brain of a strong reader.)

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