[SENco-forum] Re literacy

Like Eddie's description of reading and it highlights another problem area
as some children have no 'inner voice'.  Reading aloud is something they
need to be encouraged to do for themselves (when alone as well as if someone
is monitoring) then they can be taught to do it in their heads.

I am surrounded by SpLD and sometimes do not know what 'normal' constitutes!
One boy wanted to know why pictures ran round his head while he was
sleeping.  Most children just never ask, just learning as they go, about
dreams.

Sharon Tringham

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[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk]On Behalf Of Eddie Carron
Sent: 03 January 2007 12:51
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Subject: [senco-forum] Re literacy

Chris
I assume that you are talking about people with very specific learning
difficulties whereas I am talking about people with no specific learning
difficulties.  So essentially, we are talking about different things. I am
happy to concede that those with very specific learning difficulties will
not learn in the same way as those who do not have these difficulties.  I
thought I had made it clear that those that I am campaigning for have no
specifc learning difficulties and therefore the symbol to meaning
correspondence you describe does not arise. Hearing is of course a core
requirement for any system which has sound as a component.  If we were
discussing a particular subset of people with no hearing then of course,
normal phonic considerations would not apply. Perhaps I should rephrase my
statement. All hearing people who can read have mastered the phonic code and
all hearing people who can't read have not. This rephrasing would have of
course to be made in respect of any other subset of people who had a very
specific learning disability.

For me, reading is a silent, anti-social, receptive interaction between a
person and a text during which the meaning invested the text is assimilated
by the reader. It has been established beyond any reasonable doubt that the
mechanics of the reading process are simply the subvocalised recreation of
speech triggered reflexively by the visual experience of the symbols which
code for the sound units in our speech.

Eddie C.

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