What is the cause of illiteracy?
There are many causes. Over the years our students have shared the following reasons for their low literacy with us: 1) dropping out of school at a young age because a parent had a terminal illness; 2) undiagnosed learning disabilities; 3) belonging to a family that moved from town to town many times, and schooling was inconsistent; 4) vision and/or hearing problems; 5) growing up in a foreign country where school was not universally available; 6) lack of a role model in one’s life for education and literacy; 7) low expectations for education in some communities and in some homes.
