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Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moats, Ed.D. , are board members of the International Dyslexia Association and co-authored the award-winning book, Straight Talk About Reading: How Parents Can make a Difference During the Early Years. Their work has drawn extensive national media attention and takes them to more than fifty speaking engagements each year. Susan L. Hall is spokesperson for the Coordinated Campaign for Learning Disabilities, and Louisa C. Moats is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Center for Academic and Reading Skills at the University of Texas, Houston. Dr. Moats also teaches graduate students about reading and language at Simmons College in Boston and the Greenwood Institute in Vermont. She is currently part of a team charged with helping states improve early reading achievement under President Bush's Reading First Initiative. Susan L. Hall lives outside of Chicago, and Louisa C. Moats lives in central Vermont.
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