Did You Hear About The Time My Sister Learned to Read?

Cathy Brown was a bright little girl, but she was having trouble learning to read. She was doing well in math and other subjects. She had her eyes checked, but that was not the problem.

One day in a conference with her teacher, Cathy's parents, Orel and Betty Lou, asked to have Cathy demonstrate the way she was trying to read. They all sat down and got out her primer. Cathy started on the left of the page, using her finger to guide her vision as she moved across the page. When she got to the end of the page, she dropped to the next line, on the right of the page, and changing hands, used her finger to guide her vision back in the other direction. All the adults said at once, "That's it!"

Cathy was ambidextrous. When she was forced to use only one hand, she began reading well, almost immediately!

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