ABSTRACT
Backward readers, including brain-damaged children, coached individually or in small groups have also responded most encouragingly. Indeed, it is the proved success of the reading scheme that makes for confidence in recommending it. The scientific pedagogy is based on the identification and differentiation of specific disabilities through longitudinal training. Diagnosis should include efforts to discover the level in psychoneurological development at which the child appears to be able to function normally. This would include an assessment of the child’s sensory and perceptual processes, language and motor development, intelligence and environmental adaptation. The amount of interdisciplinary co-operation will vary from case to case but could involve neurologists, psychiatrists, educational psychologists, audiologists, ophthalmologists, teachers, social workers, and parents.
