My vote is for Reid Lyon anyday. Reid Lyon does represent the scientific approach to reading instruction as far as I am concerned. And I am spending most of...
Hi, The next Auditory Processing Disorder in the UK (APDUK) International Chat will be held on Saturday November 6th at 9pm UK time. You can check your local...
Don't delete this because it looks weird. Believe it or not, you can read it, especially if you read fast; incredible! I cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty...
Jimmy, that's an old one. It's been around all the lists before. We can read it because we already know how to read. We all know that children have to be...
Yes, but try larger words and mix the letters so that the beginning letter and the ending letter are not in the right place. I just read a study done on this....
Mary Kay Proshek
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Nov 3, 2004 3:56 am
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Subject: Newspapers flog useless "treatments" for learning disabilites Vision Therapy: Disproven Bunk in New Package; Credulous Reporting No Help When you have...
/1/ Of possible interest - from a William and Mary College student newspaper, a story about cursive and education: http://www.dogstreetjournal.com/story/2018 ...
thanks for the response to my little blond bombshell SLingerland flunkie 1st grader. Although he still does the segmenting "cleanly" 80% of the time, his final...
Good example on just how difficult it is to reach many D kids. Sure beats the heck out of shelf programs in the classroom so many think is the answer. On...
Jimmy and All, There are many researchers doing MRI investigations on a whole host of learning problems. In fact, I even heard a parent was going to try to...
Carol Murphy
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Nov 5, 2004 1:29 pm
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... I'll bet if you ... I did attend the IDA conference in Philly and saw more brains scans that I ever care to see again. I even saw the kids in the MRI...
Research is finally catching up what many have known for years. Even after excellent phonemic awareness intervention and letter/sound correspondences there is...
... Some of us are trying the SWRL program and getting success we did not get with other explicit programs. I know Jimmy programs are a dirty word to you and I...
The vendors had access and support from the NIH and White House. They knew all along the programs would fail at least 30% of the kids. The mentality of folks...
... I didn't get the impression anyone was looking for a quick fix but they are looking for a fix. Lyon and Torgensen both said many times, THIS IS HARD WORK....
You know, we'd actually have something of substance to talk about on this list if people would quit wasting posts knocking Reid Lyon, etc. and come and hear...
Try to get the school districts to do something is another hurdle to jump. Jimmy Kilpatrick Senior Fellow, Alexis de Tocqueville Institution Editor,...
Jimmy, Let me clarify that I think the goal of NCLB is totally unobtainable in public schools. I am just thankful some people are at least focused on trying to...
There are four reasons I see that school districts do not confront reading the way we wish they would do. 1. One is people's wanting one program to fix all...
Carol Murphy
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Nov 7, 2004 2:13 pm
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Too bad there are not advocates available for these children. Houston ISD has help back over a 1,000 students in 3rd grade twice already. Even if the money...
As a further point of information, most kids in special classes who at the end of third grade are not remediated never get out of Sp Ed. sad, sad, sad Carol...
Carol Murphy
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Nov 7, 2004 2:33 pm
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... unobtainable ... When I consider my school, I don't agree that low readers are being focused on... When we were discussing after school tutoring being ...
Hi Gang, I was taught to read quite a long time ago. At that time, to the very best of my memory, all the children learned to read. We had spelling lessons...
Yep, note that I said "some people" are focused on trying to help low readers. And it isn't for the right reasons, of course (it is because of money, bottom...
I was in an IEP meeting last week and they had the ELA gal push the cueing system for the kid as an intervention. Half way through here presentation I told her...
... What do you expect her to say? The experts at IDA seemed to be trying multiple approaches too and Reid Lyon was pushing expository text in first grade to...
