...parents are always eager to find some program that can help their child in an area that he or she is struggling with. For over a decade, "Hooked on Phonics" has been promoted as just such a program. Claiming to make reading and writing easier and more understandable for children, the proponents of "Hooked on Phonics" believe that it offers a new way of thinking that can be integrated into a child's thinking to allow them to better understand the basics of language skills and communication. Critics, of course, believe that it is a program that only has profit as its objective and that, in many cases, it can actually damage a child's language learning process. The program is based on Dr. Don Parker's SRA Reading Laboratories which have been used by more than 61 million people worldwide. It would certainly seem that 61 million...