ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the authors begin with some tales of four children: Calvin, Megan, James, and Stacy. These four children are different from one another in many ways. Among other things, they are of varying ages, they come from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds, and they exhibit different levels of achievement in reading. Although they are all of normal intelligence, they all strayed early from the road to proficient reading, and they all ended up being classified as learning disabled. The authors provide some "morals" of these stories—specifically, by showing how the stories illustrate some problems in the learning disability field. They present the model of reading disability in detail and offer a general discussion of the model. The authors compare their model to those of other researchers interested in reading disability, anticipate some possible objections to the model, and discuss its educational usefulness.
