eHealth Connection | Cooper University Hospital

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.

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Research shows that up to 40 percent of children in the United States have problems learning to read. Since 1995, the Cooper Learning Center has helped thousands of children learn to read—and has changed their lives.

As 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.

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