Thinking about what lies ahead for Reading Specialists in Trinidad and Tobago, it is clear that strategic plans must be put in place to help parents, teachers and the community meet the needs of struggling adolescent readers especially in the initial stages. However, ultimately our main objective will be focused on preventing reading failure from as earlier as in the lower primary school. This would no doubt require a cadre of skills for designing intervention and enhancement programmes for schools.
Such a mandate will require the Reading Specialists to be professionally competent to provide expert services in the areas of instruction, assessment and leadership (IRA Standards, 2000).
What are the implications for providing efficient instruction, assessment and leadership? It means that preparation must be planned in advanced, comfortably stored and readily available and retrievable for professional use. Here is where the use of ICT tools can raise the level of our efficiency as we endeavour to instruct, assess and lead our nation to successful reading.
Victoria Cunningham
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