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Upon reading your May 8, 2007, article, "Florida Program Spotlights Language and Literacy," I am quite disturbed that we in the speech and language profession would take it upon ourselves to continue the traditional literacy drill-and-kill approach of phonemic awareness and phonic lessons without support of the reading context with students facing significant literacy deficits and disabilities.
There is no need to reinvent the wheel when there are qualified reading specialists who have demonstrated alternative successful evidence-based research for the struggling reader. These methods could prove to be essential and beneficial to the field of speech and language disorders as we make the shift for more literacy-based treatment in the schools.
Shirley Golden
Pacoima, California
shir_gold154@yahoo.com
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