[senco-forum] Calling in EPs...Tangent...

dyslexic/dyspraxic pupils. <<<

(Janice mentioned...)
>>> dyslexic/dyspraxic pupils. <<<

(A sad attendee at the BDA Harrogate
Conference writes..... a mad one who ate  lunch
outside one day....wouldn't dream of doing
that at home - x5 miles up the road - until around
June...gotta' be conference fever! < VBG > )

Big, big changes ahead re "diagnosis" methinks
for all the SpLDs. Neuroscience and cognitive
neuroscience are gonna checkmate all else
.....welcome to the coming world of medical diagnosis
alongside PhD Psychologists using neuroscience
qualifications but pulling the forelocks to the medics
re genes and brain structures.

& Teachers? - will teach. And what? - "Reading Instruction."

Best teacher tests? Schonnell and TOWRE.

I *do* enjoy listening to Amanda Kirby re Dyspraxia
.... watch this space as DCD starts to become a major
new urgency re available tests, schemes of work,
etc.

How are we gonna' support and not just remediate folk?
Increasing emphasis methinks.

"Feigning" Dyslexia ...... folk really do want to be
"One of them" as it is so delicately said betimes.
(Pax, pax, irate parents.... I *am* such a 'one'.)
How to spot the wanna' be cheats? And our
missing ones? Dyspraxia's certainly a-moving
and a-thinking.

& Researchers a-huntin'-of-the-dyslexics in a
Girls' Grammar School of all places. Well
really! Grammar Schools
don't have Dyslexics or Dyspraxics or Aspergers,
do they? Aspergers another new major urgency.

And Language Disorder/Dyslexia..... I felt a sort of
mood in the air that was: specialist help: yes; but no, not 
" a dyslexia".

& Low IQ was identified.... then help as generously but do not
feel sorry and  call 'dyslexic' or 'dyspraxic'.
"More Aware" and/or "Less Aware" were not terms used if
I remember a previous thread aright re IQ/Dyslexia.

We'll be talking support/awareness enabling mechanisms
as much as about reading instruction efficiency as we get into
high set dyslexics. ( And a 'rantic' (sic) parent comments
...."And about time too".... sorry, couldn't resist that one.)

Synthetic Phonics? - Don't forget Morphemic Instruction
too and Comprehension.
Comprehension? Don't forget synthetic phonics too, and,
Morphemic Instruction.
ie Systematic Phonics + all the other things that go
into making a real reader. 
(Martin was spot on re his comments on this of
some time ago.)

It was great to meet folk who went. 
(& the workshop leader who stopped in
the corridor, turned, and smiled at the
shambolic, sandal clad, beardie who stood
aimlessly and said: "It's Mr Bergin, isn't
it? Do you remember me?" Ahh, The joys of 
an old time class teacher trying to drag up
 memories of thirty years ago! < VBG> )

Interesting times lie ahead..... good luck to all
of us who try to wield the magic wand.
The medics are coming. The world's a'changin'.
( At which point I'll break into Bob Dylanese
for real and conclude "He was 
always known to lend a helpin' hand.")

John  (retired)