Here are extracts from Children of the Code published about
20 years ago.Let us bear in mind that the interviewer is Dr. David Boulton.
Dr.G.Reid Lyon
Number one, we know that reading is complex. And most people give it short shrift as I did when I was a third grade teacher. I just took it for granted. It’s one of the most complex, unnatural cognitive interactions that brain and environment have to coalesce together to produce. (G. Reid Lyon, Past- Chief of the Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, National Institutes of Health)
