Graduate University, jointly with San Diego State University, in California, and has co-authored several articles in Special Education journals. She also co-authored a chapter in a textbook on non-traditional approaches in the field of Special Education, and her conference presentations and invited workshops in the United States, Turkey, and Mexico have, over the years, filled her calendar.
Dr. Stone's READING-RIGHT is a highly effective program for all ages and ethnicities and she is enthusiastically engaged in writing a book about it. The research and theory that frame her program, originated with 200 studies from Dr. Paulo Freire, supplemented by the research of Dr. Roach Van Allen, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, and Grace Fernald.
Dr. Stone believes that reading
instruction should begin with the student, not with the skill development. She has mentored professors and teachers, using READING-RIGHT in California, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New York, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin, as well as in Tijuana, Mexico, British Columbia, and Eskisehir, Turkey. Dr. Stone has also conducted a study on inmates in the California Juvenile Justice System, which resulted in reading improvement scores of up to four years advancement, within a 14-day time frame. It is also noteworthy that fifty percent of those inmates who participated, are no longer part of the Juvenile Justice System, now being either employed, or enrolled in college.
Stone has worked with College Kids, a non-profit after-school program, in Barrio Logan, San Diego, California; and while she is conducting seminars to teach mentors to use the READING-RIGHT program, she