[senco-forum] Re Literacy/Dyslexia

Thanks to every one who contributed to
this thread.... it really is interesting to read.

I must admit I'm firmly on Eddie's side.
Cost effective and didactically sound.

I was asked about phonics by a classics
undergrad last Easter... took somewhat under 10 minutes
with the aid of the big THRASS box of sound patterns.
We also forget kiddies come to school able to read.

I dyslexia private tutor nowadays and get kiddies
from Y1 and up.

I was very impressed with a course I went on last
year re the Ruth Miskin synthetic phonics..

I read the 80% too. It was in the literature a while back,
I'm sure.

Re VAK. I've read V is the academically important
learning mode, can't remember where, sorry.
But what does one do with a V disabled as
well as an A disabled learner?
.....I'm
teaching a student so zapped presently.(And an
unusally kind LEA EP told mum, 'appropriately'.)

& Dyslexia....
The dyslexics who can read and write and spell
....what about them after early reading and spelling has been cracked?
It's *not* single word reading and spelling that remain as "the problem".
But that's another can of worms.

John