ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to clarify what implications particular findings have for practical problems in learning to read. There is no royal road to reading. The description of processing which is discussed in the next chapter is a tentative model that needs testing. But the findings we have so far on how the processes in reading by touch link together also raise questions about practical procedures. The application of findings to individual situations, and how they are best implemented, are matters that can only be gauged by the readers themselves and the teachers that help them to learn.
