As a pediatric speech-language pathologist and a mother of a child in San Diego public schools, I’ve seen California’s early ...

He stopped cold in his book, his finger lingering under the word ... the series of sounds that make up a word — also known as phonics and phonemics — is the key to helping them decode words ...

Sometimes called the father of freak-folk, the 83-year-old singer-songwriter lived, worked and died on his own terms.

He moved between traditional covers and winking originals, his voice sometimes rising for a cappella numbers to give his fingers a rest ... his own Bellemeade Phonics in the late '80s.