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Northshore October 2025
On Thursday, January 6, 2011, Dr. Marjorie Empacher, who holds a PhD from Boston University, shared with fellow Rotarians, her long standing work as a tutor for illiterate adults on the North Shore of Boston.  Dr. Empacher spoke at length about a case study she conducted, while teaching a twenty-seven years old woman how to read, and how she used her analysis of the factors contributing to this particular illiteracy case, for her PhD dissertation.  Dr. Empacher's research concluded that the lack of language stimulation before formal schooling and the subsequent endless social promotion contributed to the development of
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