Posted on 07/07/2011 12:15:33 PM PDT by BruceDeitrickPrice
Ah, yes. Those charming folks who append a fake title to their name.
The ones who stand between people and medicine. The ones who presume to give "orders".
Aren't they great? "No antibiotics for you until I get paid!"
Never trust anyone who sports a fake title and wants to put his finger in your butt.
My perception is that dyslexia, and ADHD for that matter, are real enough problems, but that lazy teachers use their existence as an excuse for their failures, i.e. claiming that any student that doesn’t benefit from their instruction must have a problem.
We were not taught phonics to read or write with in school
I was always top of my class in reading but terrible in writing...
They tested me in 6th grade to figure out why and found I had a 2nt year collage level vocabulary and verbal skill
(I just picked up my mother's vocabulary who went to work at 15 as a maid but was a self taught student reading book after book ever day of her life)
...So the really was I was just reading by guessing the words by context in the sentence the letter in the word just gave me the clue to guess....
However this does not work in writing and if you have an average vocabulary it does not work very well for reading either.
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Yes, that’s what my article is about. I’m in the same camp as Flesch, Blumenfeld, Engelmann, Mona McNee, Marva Collins, etc. The fascinating challenge, however, is to explain why Whole Word causes so many problems.
However, this does not mean that mediocre "therapists" have not started to see bipolar disorder where it does not in fact exist.
“My grandfather lived in the day when being left-handed was considered a rebellious act and he was punished unmercifully for it.”
I remember my Grandma doing everything short of beating my little sister for eating with her left hand. And this was in the early 70’s.
It certainly messed with sis’s head.
She voted for o.
My point was that if there is a disability you do not redefine it as a non-disability, something normal, you try to cure it. You don’t tell a stutterer that stuttering is normal, you try to cure his stuttering. You don’t tell a dyslexic that dyslexia is normal, you try to cure his dyslexia.
Since my girls brought home papers with some phonetic exercies on them, it did not occur to me to question how they were being taught until their teacher said that one of my girls was having trouble "decoding" a word. Since I had no idea what that meant, I began to look into it and discovered Flesh's books. It still makes me furious to think how the education establishment keep using a method that they knew was not working, just because PhDs and textbook companies had staked their reputations and careers on it!
“I like the way you explain dyslexia.
Ive had it all my life, I can read in mirror image as easily as normal reading.”
Same here. My family is rife with this type of neurological wiring, and visual strengths seem to exist at the expense of linguistic ones. Math/engineering are where our strengths lie. Two of my kids are also diagnosed with Auditory Processing Disorder, a common underlying condition of dyslexia (identified and measured via responses to machine stimuli) but they’ve learned to adapt and succeed despite this. Another taught himself to read and write entirely backward before he learned how to do it forward (reminiscent of da Vinci’s notebooks).
There’s no doubt it’s not exactly typical, but I certainly don’t view it as a weakness.
There you go!
There are two questions:
(1) Does the neurological tic or cluster of tics which are loosely called dyslexia exist?
(2) Is”dyslexia” misdiagnosed, often to provide cover for bad pedagogy?
Then we are in violent agreement, my FRiend.
My point is that the disability may be cured via arming the individual with the methods he or she needs to properly decode. To help the individual who suffers from dyslexia, you address the root issue, and don’t allow the issue to become an excuse.
BTW - I work with a dyslexic in a very reading-oriented field. He has adapted to the difficulty of reading, and is an effective document reviewer. That is the outcome I am inclined to agitate for.
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