tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post4763760434649124618..comments2024-03-26T04:19:38.862-07:00Comments on kitchen table math, the sequel: Can the method cause dyslexia?Catherine Johnsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03347093496361370174noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-75773279568957468772008-02-13T12:20:00.000-08:002008-02-13T12:20:00.000-08:001. Pete Wright (the special education law attorne...1. Pete Wright (the special education law attorney at wrightslaw.com) calls it not situational dyslexia, but dysteachia.<BR/><BR/>2. On the French, see the discussion at Language Log: <BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004261.html" REL="nofollow">Globalization of Educational Fads and Fallacies</A><BR/>and <A HREF="http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/004263.html" REL="nofollow">The Teaching of Reading</A>. I followed up those posts with one of my own, on the <A HREF="http://lizditz.typepad.com/i_speak_of_dreams/2007/03/language_log_ha.html" REL="nofollow"> fad of whole language</A>Liz Ditzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03455722013211350247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-43485328456131570612008-02-13T11:20:00.000-08:002008-02-13T11:20:00.000-08:00That's quite an interesting article. Thanks for t...That's quite an interesting article. Thanks for translating, Ed.<BR/><BR/>The speech therapy point was interesting.<BR/><BR/>Two friends of mine who used to teach Kindergarten with explicit phonics said that they noticed a difference in their students' speech before and after phonics.<BR/><BR/>I also noticed an improvement in my 2 year old son's speech after he learned all his letter sounds from "The Talking Letter Factory." If you scroll through the amazon reviews (200+ mostly positive reviews!) of the movie, you'll see that a few other parents have noticed the same speech improvement with their children.ElizabethBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06128884454595561057noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7691251033406320222.post-13892542741215481332008-02-13T08:32:00.000-08:002008-02-13T08:32:00.000-08:00I think that by widening the definition of dyslexi...I think that by widening the definition of dyslexia to include all those children that are reading below grade level because of poor instruction you are diluting the population of dyslexics to the point that actual dyslexics are harder to identify. I have seen a much better term used that I think will strengthen your discussion and keep people like me who want to see the best information about dyslexia provided limited to facts about dyslexia. <BR/><BR/>You are actually writing about situational dyslexia. The qualities of dyslexia are internal to the individual where situational dyslexia ( even without being defined) is clearly a condition caused by external factors.<BR/><BR/>I highly recommend that you visit http://www.childrenofthecode.org/ which is a public television series about how children learn to read the code and the results caused by difficulties in instruction as well as many other facets of the complex skill of learning to read.<BR/><BR/>Any good definition of dyslexia includes the requirement that the individual has received proper instruction to weed out those that are simply poor readers because of poor instruction.<BR/><BR/>It is true that you would expect that the population of dyslexics would become concentrated into the population of situational dyslexics caused by poor instruction. While phonics intervention is likely appropriate and all that is necessary for situational dyslexics the dyslexics in the group need a higher level of intervention because of their learning disability.<BR/><BR/>I deal with a subgroup of dyslexics that have visual problems that make reading difficult. I sell dyslexia glasses at www.dyslexiaglasses.com that remove any described visual problems that cause reading difficulties for visual dyslexics. I have to qualify that my glasses only help visual dyslexics every time I write about them because dyslexics in general do not benefit from the glasses because most don't have visual problems.<BR/><BR/>Just as visual dyslexics describes the group I work with better than dyslexics, situational dyslexics describes the group better than dyslexics. I do stop short of calling the glasses visual dyslexia glasses because I feel glasses infer vision problems but whenever I write about them I always explain that they are for visual dyslexics and not all dyslexics.<BR/><BR/>I totally agree that situational dyslexia is a real problem.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com