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About Gatehouse

We publish Gatehouse Books® for new readers - a collection of reading books and resources for developing literacy in young people and adults. Our portfolio includes phonic readers, vocational readers, interactive CDRoms, eBooks, audio stories and now the exciting one-to-one reading scheme, Yes We Can Read.  
For more information, please call us on 01925 267778 or visit our website: www.gatehousebooks.com.

 

About Yes We Can Read

This innovative new reading programme was devised and written by Libby Coleman and Nick Ainley.

Libby Coleman (BA hons, Adv. Dip. Ed.) is a retired comprehensive school head teacher of three schools; and has been involved with teaching reading since she was six and taught her sister to read. She has worked with people with severe learning disabilities, who have learned to read; and has lectured in special needs at Roehampton and Nene Universities. She works as a volunteer teaching reading in prisons and in areas of social deprivation.  

 

Nick Ainley was a systems analyst for IBM in the 1970’s. A  Mencap chairman, he spent most of his career working with adults with severe learning disabilities and managed homes for them in the community. He taught one of his residents who was paralysed down one side of his body to tie his shoe-laces with one hand. One-to-one, small steps and patience is the key!