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Tue, 29 Jul 2008

"I'm holding steady at 30." -- Shantell Bertha Thaxton Berrett


About 2 scores ago Marilyn Beecher and Gerald Burt Thaxton became parents to a baby girl which they named Shantell Bertha Thaxton.

For as long as I remember, I have made my family breakfast in bed. Today was no exception to that rule. I made Shantell her favorite breakfast, which is spaghetti.

Who am i kidding, I made the spaghetti for me. I made her eggs, bacon, and OJ. She had to go into work today, so she was up before I got back from basketball. So it wasn't really breakfast in bed. It was more like breakfast at your desk.

Happy "30th and holding" birthday.

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Tue, 08 Jul 2008

Dyslexia and You


"Dyslexia is not a disease to have and to be cured of, but a way of thinking and learning. Often it's a gifted mind waiting to be found and taught."
--Girard Sagmiller
"Dyslexia My Life"

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 On October 16, 2006, KCPW interviewed Dr. Kathleen Brown, director of the University of Utah Reading Clinic, says Utah is "a black hole" for dyslexics, because the state does not provide training for educators on how to spot the disability and effectively remediate it.
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Over the past year Shantell has been working as a Dyslexia Tutor. She has taken a variety of Dyslexia courses and studed a variety of different teaching styles. She became involved in this because T-y has some dyslexic characteristics. She has even opened up her own dyslexia tutoring business, The Reading Source, in Provo.

Over the past year Shantell has also been working as a trainer for Reading Horizons. Reading Horizons is a company that is developing and perfecting computer software based on the effective Discover Intensive Phonics for Yourself method first published in 1976. (This is the same program that is used in the University of Utah Reading Clinic.) She has since been offered a full time job working for them. She is in charge of their online product "Reading Horizons at Home". Click on the "Reading Horizons at Home" link and you will be able to see a video of Shantell.

You can read more about the challenges of Dyslexia from The Reading Source website.

Click here to find out why English is such a hard language to learn.

If you know of anyone that is struggling with reading, then have them contact Shantell. Shantell's contact information is listed on The Reading Source website.

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