Keating – early interventions

We know a lot more about how early we can detect reading difficulties and what sorts of things we can do, and how early we might be able to detect autism; what kinds of things we might be able to put into place that would mitigate those things. We’re not going to be able, I suspect ever, to make a truly dyslexic child exactly like a child with fluent reading, but we can in fact build the workarounds that make that happen quite well and quite competently. We’re not nearly as far along that road in autism as we are in dyslexia, but I suspect that we are going to get there, we are beginning to understand that the earliest interventions are the best and understanding how to get those services delivered early are very important.