[senco-forum] Re Standards Site

Hi Maggie

Unfortunately these types of reports include all of the nonsense that
surrounds dyslexia, and are academics on an super ego trip and mot related
to the real issues the dyslexics face everyday. Even the title Developmental

Dyslexia is a fiction.

There are too many so called researchers who never get close to a real
dyslexic but get paid to these in accurate reports this is pure sitting at a
desk research looking at the work of others, and not really understanding
what is involved and then producing and more unreal set of results, This why
we have to problems we have now. Too many paid to reprocess the subjective
opinions of others, wand very little practical objectivity. 
The USA literacy and reading forums are full of the pompous university
professors who are good with at manipulating data but have no idea what they
are talking about in practical reality terms, and their opinion can be very
sought after. If you want to talk about dyslexia the only experiences you
can consider are those who have dyslexia as most who purport to be dyslexia
experts have lost touch with dyslexia reality, and live in their own worlds
of self indulgence, there are a few exceptions, but even they bend to the
whims of politics.

Best wishes

dolfrog

-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of Maggie Downie
Sent: 01 February 2007 23:53
To: senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk
Subject: RE: [senco-forum] Re Standards Site

As I do not rely on one study to inform my views about the most effective
method of teaching reading to children without profound learning
difficulties I am quite indifferent  to unsubstantiated comments made about
it by a completely anonymous person on a message board.

I have always agreed with dolfrog's proposition that 'dyslexia' is not a
'condition' in itself but is a symptom of various underlying difficulties.
However, unlike dolfrog, I believe that in the majority of cases the
underlying condition is incorrect initial teaching of reading and my
experience of working with 'struggling' readers, whether or not they are
labeled as 'dyslexic', has done nothing to change this opinion.

I would refer you to this report from the National Research and Development
Centre for adult literacy and numeracy;

Developmental Dyslexia in Adults:a research review (May 2004)

http://www.nrdc.org.uk/publications_details.asp?ID=11

This is the sort of evidence I rely on.

Maggie

dolfrog <dolfrog at tiscali.co.uk> wrote: Hi Maggie

I think I might be agreeing with you as the whole point of my original post
to start this thread, was a link to the DfES Standards Forum and to a recent
contribution to the Standards forum that begins to expose one of the more
recent reports written on this topic was to a large extent based on a
research program which did not use sound scientific research methods.

Best wishes

dolfrog 

---------------------------------
 Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick,
easy and free. Do it now...