[senco-forum] Diagnostic reading analysis ages 7-16

Olanys at aol.com wrote: 

My point was  that Graeme is one of the very few people in the UK currently 
diagnosed  with APD
 But we are always being told that 10% of the population could have APD.  That is about 6 million people, by my reckoning.  Hardly a 'few'.  How does the figure of 10% get extrapolated from a 'few' diagnoses?

I don't think it is the APD that bothers people on this forum; I think that most people are quite interested as there is a possibility that they may encounter it in their professional capacity at some time. 

What bothers people is dolfrog's sweeping dismissal of of a huge body of research into reading and reading 'disabilities', and the experience of practitioners,  on the strength of the experience of what turns out to be a very few individuals.

Maggie

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