Mommy Learns to Read (again)

After completing high school, college, homeschooling for nine years and teaching a few second graders several years back, you'd think that Lori would have mastered reading quite some time ago. But as we watched Channah develop, Lori noticed her developing some difficulties that had been absent or less evident in our other kids. Though she is very bright and extremely creative, she has struggled with learning to read and her reading ability is below what it should be for her age. Channah's wonderful teacher at Liberty Christian School agreed with our suspicions and requested that she be tested for reading challenges.

Lori and local Spell Read director, Joan Collins

It turns out that mild dyslexia is more common than you might think, and apparently Channah struggles with this in her reading. The good news is that help is on the way! LCS encourages their students who are struggling with reading to enroll in a program called Spell Read, which focuses on retraining the brain to better interpret the phonics used in reading. They have a tremendous success rate with very positive results, boasting of many success stories. If you're interested in the details of the program, you can read more about it on their web site: http://www.pcieducation.com/spellread/default.aspx .

Lori preparing for her first tutoring session

What this all means for us is that Lori is learning the program to become a tutor for Channah and for other students at LCS who need this program. We hope that after this school year when we return to Cameroon, Lori will be ready and able to take the program with us back to Yaounde so that she can help lots of other students who struggle with these kinds of issues.


Please pray for Lori as she finishes up her training and begins tutoring students. And, please pray that we would be able to find the best way to incorporate this training that she has received into the programs that are already in place at the schools in Cameroon, so that this training can be a blessing to our students over there as well as to those that she will be able to tutor here before we return!