Deborrah L. Howes

**Deborrah L. Howes is the daughter of the late Arthur Ernest Howes famous for his ingenuity in transforming fiction novels into reality, (in the seventies he enginered Toronto Hospital surgery rooms using motion study borrowed from the popular novel 'Cheaper by the Dozen'. Her mother, Joanna Richardson was a vogue model of the forties era who later made the family wealthy in real estate investments.
Howes is known for a major contribution to the world's understanding of children's developing theories of mind. Her Master's thesis in Cognitive Science, 'Children's understanding of false beliefs as subjective attitudes, published in the early nineties, generated a plethora of books written in several languages, and in such diverse topics from philosophical, to modern technological advances to our belief in God. Her daughter, Alexia Howes Gezink, is an ambassador for the oppressed and her son Ashley Shiralian is a talented composer of music.
She was author to a beginning reading phonics program 'Sing, Spell, Read & Write',
originally set to music by the late Les Paul in his New York recording studios in the early seventies and presently mandated by George Bush's controversial 'No Child
Left Behind' Act. Howes now works in trade publishing currently working on a documentary about the 'Reading Wars'. She lives in Pickering, Ontario, Canada and works in Pickering Village, Ajax, Ontario. In the nineties Howes was known for her outspoken launch on both radio and T.V. against the whole language takeover in
North American schools.