Does Whole-Language (vs. Phonics) Reading Oedagogy Cause Dyslexia,

The New Anerican ^ | Unknown | Samuel Blumenfeld

[CharlesOConnell]

I don't want to go with The New American, which is from 'The John Birch Society', I want corroboration from the Left:

There is leftist confirmation of the claim that four Rockefeller boys were dyslexic due to planned educational abuse--the inadvertent, unintended application of John Dewey's Loki-like miseducational plan to the ultra-elite Rockefellers--in The New Yorker, in an article "Big Spender: Nelson Rockefeller’s grand ambitions", by Jeffrey Frank, October 6, 2014, at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/13/big-spender-2. (Search on the page for "dyslexia")

In a YouTube video, Dr. Samuel Blumenfeld asserts that the second Rockefeller, John Jr., was an enthusiast for John Dewey's program of deliberate dumbing down of the common people for social control using the opposite of phonics, whole language reading pedagogy.

Dr. Blumenfeld relates that John D. Rockefeller endowed $3 million to an experimental Dewey-method school, the Lincoln School. All four Rockefeller boys, according to Dr. Blumenfeld, Nelson, Lawrence, Winthrop and David, were sent to the Lincoln School, where they all developed dyslexia, a condition largely unknown before John Dewey's proliferation of 'whole language' reading pedagogy, and the extinction of phonics.

Dr. Blumenfeld asserts that all four Rockefellers became dyslexic because of 'whole language' reading pedagogy.

Here is The New Yorker quote, about Nelson's dyslexia:

All of this [Nelson's rise to public prominence] he managed despite severe dyslexia: his spelling was atrocious, and he transposed words, letters, and numbers, sometimes leaving aides to figure out what he meant with a message intended for, say, "Mr. Joe N. Lie," [Zhou Enlai/Chou En-lai] of the People’s Republic of China.

(However, to avoid extremes, I will tell you that I have a 6 year old grandson with a severe speech impediment, dysphasia, who has only been in school 2 months, who writes about 50% of his letters backwards. He was dyslexic prior to his onset of schooling; but he is disabled.)

[ConservativeMind]

Fascinating.

Both I and my sisters learned phonetically; however, one sister is dyslexic and she has a strongly dyslexic son.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

As a former teacher, I’ll tell you it DOESN’T work.

[BlissinNC]

Apparently, a font has been developed to help people who have dyslexia:

https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-font-that-helps-dyslexics-read-better/

[chris37]

I had a friend who was dyslexic long before whole reading was ever a thing.

[waynesa98]

dyslexia is a physical neurological syndrome. the impairment it causes is mitigated or exacerbated by how language is taught. (brain tissue analysis have shown islands of cortical tissue in grey matter) Its been obvious for years that the left has been dumbing the great unwashed for their advantage. (socialist take over of the USA and globe, keeping others from jobs they want for their kids etc) The common core extension is just now entering college and is acknowledged as the least prepared generation ever. per the lefts interpretation of Animal House “fat drunk and stupid is the way to go through life”

[Mr. K]

I once asked a ‘whole word’ proponent how do you read something if you’ve never seen a word before... he said “well then you go back to sounding it out”..

I said “How? If you’ve never learned to do that?”

So they want to teach people to see a whole word first? THEN teach them the rules to build a word from the letters?

Why not just teach they way they did for hundreds of years (successfully) WHO’S STUPID IDEA WAS THIS? IS THERE A NAME? OR IS THIS JUST ‘COMMON CORE’?

[arthurus]

Whole Language can certainly stunt a person’s ability and thus desire to read.

[skinndogNN]

Dyslexia is hereditary. So it is no surprise that 4 boys from the same family had it.

There is also a Dyslexia spectrum. It is not always obvious.

[imardmd1]

This is a very interesting aspect to addressing the problem of “dysfontia.” I find some fonts rather easier to read than others. For instance, I prefer the “Georgia” or “Souvenier” fonts to the more common “Times-Roman” font face, but I’m not exactly sure why. And why is it that cursive writing is no longer taught in primary grades? Many people now cannot even read it, let alone write with plain clarity in the longhand mode.

[arthurus]

For several years following a bad crash with head damage I had something like Dyslexia. I could read words but could not make them combine into sentences and paragraphs. A book was no more than a vocabulary list.

[Albion Wilde]

I find some fonts rather easier to read than others. For instance, I prefer the “Georgia” or “Souvenier” fonts to the more common “Times-Roman” font face, but I’m not exactly sure why.

We are all unique and organically created with subtle variations, and it is no more curious that you find some typefaces easier to read than others, than it is for you to prefer certain foods or colors.

Current trends in education have made victims of everyone, instead of teaching acceptance of a wide range of variation. Making people robots makes them easier to control. In nature, it's regresson towards the mean. In sociopolitics, it's socialism or communism. The U.S. Constitution stood athwart these human vices and helped earlier generations develop unique creations in many fields. The universal left hates uniqueness and individual freedom and tries to stamp it out rather than stretch its lazy, whining self to learn more and accept challenge.