Learning to read can change a life. Teaching someone to read can change two.
Cathrine Christine Corbett thought an English literature degree and a return to school might point her toward a stable new chapter. Instead, her first middle-school classroom revealed a devastating truth: too many children were being passed along despite lacking even basic reading skills, and too many caring teachers lacked the training to reach them.
What began as a painful professional failure became a twenty-year calling. From struggling children with dyslexia and autism to adults who had spent decades hiding their illiteracy, Corbett discovered that with explicit instruction, patience, and one-on-one attention, reading is not an unreachable mystery. It is a promise that can still be kept.
Part memoir, part call to action, Rescuing Students with Dyslexia: Stories of Struggle, Hope and the Promise of Reading is an inspiring, practical testament to the joy of helping readers find their way-one sound, one word, one life at a time.