[senco-forum] RE: RE reading

Phil says "LEAs should be abolished and all the money given to schools and the schools made fully accountable."

Thats exactly how I work!    I have long experience of privately tutoring older poor readers (9 to 14) but, unlike working teachers, I am in a position of being able to select those whose principal handicap is short term memory deficit, irrespective of the extent of their reading deficit and I guarantee, at the very least, substantial remediation of their difficulty.  I work by being paid in advance with a six month, post dated cheque.  This cheque is passed for payment only if and when the parent agrees that my guarantee has been fulfilled.   Put another way, if I don't deliver, I don't get paid.  Over many years of working in this way, not once has a cheque been countermanded.    STM is not about memory - it is about admittance to memory and when that function is impaired, only specific solutions are truly remedial. I thought everybody knew that.

Eddie Carron