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Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Bec Zajac for Life Matters

Author Sally Rippin felt lost when her son couldn’t read. She wants other parents to learn from her experience

Sally Rippin remembers the moment when, as a preschooler, reading clicked for her and she could suddenly decode the squiggly lines on a page.

"It felt like it was something that happened in an instant," the award-winning children's author tells ABC RN's Life Matters.

She also remembers when, later in life, she realised reading was not clicking for her son in the same way.

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