Summer is a wonderful time for family fun. Playing sports, going on vacation and spending long days at the shore gives your children much-needed down time, but what happens in September when your child goes back to school? Commonly, the first few weeks back to school in the fall is spent re-teaching information forgotten by the students over the summer.
The summer and its lack of structure can contribute to children’s resistance to reading, exploring academic topics and generally exercising their brains. A certain amount of structure is a good thing according to Richard Selznick, Ph.D., Director of The Cooper Learning Center, and author of The Shut-Down Learner: Helping Your Academically Discouraged Child.
Did you know that up to 40% of the children in the United States have problems learning to read, according to research? Since 1995, the Cooper Learning Center (LEAP) has changed the lives of thousands of children by helping them learn to read. A division of the Department of Pediatrics at Cooper University Hospital, the Cooper Learning Center uses the proven, evidence-based methods that are the most effective way to teach children to read. 
