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Posted: Friday September 2nd, 2005 22:06 |
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http://www.tes.co.uk/2126352 for a summary - full article not available online.
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Posted: Friday September 2nd, 2005 22:22 |
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Of course he would say that....the poor mad professor has been doing his research for almost 25 years with NO result.....he had been made into a laughing stock by his peers and Dyslexics academics...so what does he do to vindicate his wasted time? He concludes that we are all lying and that he the idiot who has wasted all that time is right.
What a complete nutcase! He couldn't face being a failure, so he comes up with a controversial conclusions to hide his own dumbness.
Maybe he forgot that one the greatest scientist of our time Einstein was actually dyslexic, yet he found relativity.....and him the so called brainy intelligent professor wasted 25 years to come up with nothing but a sensational emotional conclusion!
Don't you love this inadequate academics......lol
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Posted: Friday September 2nd, 2005 23:13 |
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this is where the problems start for me. In his article, Elliott - who is currently Professor of Education at Durham, was formerly a teacher of children with learning difficulties and then an educational psychologist - states that:
...a diagnosis of dyslexia tells us virtually nothing about how best the individual can be helped to become a better reader...There is no sound, widely accepted body of scientific work that has shown that there exists any particular teaching approach which is more appropriate for "dyslexic" children than for other poor readers.
This begs a question - if the same teaching approaches work (or don't work) with both 'dyslexic' students and those with poor literacy skills who have not been labelled dyslexic, then is it meaningful to talk of dyslexia as a spectrum of conditions separate from poor reading/writing skills in general?
BTW, I don't subscribe to the 'dyslexia-claimers are feckless ingrates and/or incorrigible wasters looking for a free ride' argument. In fact, I don't blame students or parents in the least for the current situation or for seeking to gain some advantage from it. I am concerned, though, about the way that the dyslexia lobby routinely parades opinion as fact, and treats all attempts to establish the scientific veracity of some of the claims made as a reactionary attack upon education in general and on themselves in particular.
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Posted: Tuesday September 6th, 2005 03:01 |
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My my my......how articulate and well spoken you are on the internet for someone afflicted with such a terrible learning disability.
Omaar's proud of you.
Coltrane
I don't believe dyslexia has anything to do with intelligence either.
Personally, I think the problem stems from the way our brains are structured.
Most Black people's brains are structured to read from right to left like we do in Arabic; other's of our people read from top to bottom such as Orientals....but rarely from left to right as we are trained to do in the West and it makes learning more difficult.
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Posted: Wednesday September 7th, 2005 09:48 |
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| watch out for fascinating documentary coming on about dyslexia as social construct. will get details and get back to you!
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Posted: Wednesday September 7th, 2005 09:56 |
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THURSDAY 08 SEPTEMBER
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The Dyslexia Myth
The current affairs series exposes the myths and misconceptions surrounding dyslexia, a condition said to affect 10 per cent of the population. The programme argues that the common understanding of dyslexia not only false but makes it more difficult to provide the reading help that hundreds of thousands of children desperately need.
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Posted: Wednesday September 7th, 2005 09:59 |
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Dispatches CH4 Thursday 8th September 0900 1000pm
The Dyslexia Myth
The current affairs series exposes the myths and misconceptions surrounding dyslexia, a condition said to affect 10 per cent of the population. The programme argues that the common understanding of dyslexia not only false but makes it more difficult to provide the reading help that hundreds of thousands of children desperately need.
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Posted: Wednesday September 7th, 2005 12:09 |
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Omaar wrote:
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My my my......how articulate and well spoken you are on the internet for someone afflicted with such a terrible learning disability.
Omaar's proud of you.
Lol....i hope you are being sacarstic, dyslexia has nothing to do with one's intelligence......if one is dumb, there is nothing you can do about it...even if you dress it up as learning difficulties.
I just think differently compared to the average person thats all.....
Oh and another point....i think you could be right about the western system....i find that when i use my mother tongue, i have less problems....maybe i just hate white people's languages.....
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Posted: Monday May 29th, 2006 23:35 |
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There is much talk about whether Dyslexia is for real or not.
I have watched the various argument on TV about the subject and as a Learning Support Tutor with Dyslexia training, I have formed by own views over time.
Dyslexia does not have anything to do with intelligence. It can affect the way you learn as it is about language processing. The left brain – right brain theory does not hold too much water as there is much evidence to suggest that in most people that learning is made easier by the fact that both sides of the brain are able to cope with a wide range of neurological issues and will often compensate for small differences in the overall development of most people.
What is most likely to make Dyslexia an issue is the fact that we now know that it does follow within families, especially left handed families, but the real issues are often found with children’s hearing.. that is to say that when given a recording of the letters of the alphabet, it is amazing how people hear different things and when asked to record what they hear, it can be different from what is actually said.
Over a child’s educational lifespan, it is easy for hearing issues to hamper reading and writing skills and this is before we start looking at things like the environment or food additives.
All in all, there are a number of things that create what professionals term as a person who has Dyslexia and as such, each case needs to be seen as an individual. In order to help people who have any Dyslexic tendencies, a wide range of strategies need to be put into place, not least the need to reduce any anxiety in the person who has received yet another label in life..
When the Professor made his initial statement, I could identify with what he was saying and much of what he was saying was originally taken to seriously and out of context.
The gist of what he was trying to say was “ the money spent on employing people like myself to ONLY work with people diagnosed as Dyslexic, could be more wisely spent, employing people like me to teach a whole class� and thus the whole class, including those with Dyslexic tendencies, could benefit from my skills and input.. To this I have to agree.
He was also making the point, that too many LEA were pampering to the fact, that a child who has a “Statement� attracts additional funding to that school and the fact that a child labeled with this PC titled, is afforded a degree of latitude within their studies that might further discourage them for advancing at a more inclusive pace.. This point can be also seen amongst those who work with children that are labeled ADHD..
At the end of the day, I personal believe that a part of the problems with people with any form of learning difficulties, is that the team of people that are employed to help them, often have diverse approaches to the diagnosed problem/s and as such their intervention is not holistic enough and can and sometimes does, lead to advancement at a slower pace.
My views are personal but are based on my training as a Doctor of Psychological Pathology, which is the study of learning disabilities as a result of neurological problems, be them from birth or acquired as an adult, be them through genetics or from environmental reasons.
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