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Reply With QuoteDo you want to back that up with some external references?Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov
Elsewhere, Gadget wrote:
It appears that psychologists are now coming round to the view that there is no such thing as dyslexia.
What do people think about that?
{Ducks}
Do you want to back that up with some external references?
As a mother of 2, one being a daughter who excels at English and the other, a son, who IS Dyslexic, I have no doubt in my mind, that the statement is utter B****cks
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It was in a Channel 4 documentary, "The Dyslexia Myth" a month or so back.
But let's face it, Channel 4 at the moment is run by such a bunch of w***ers that the phrase "it was in a Channel 4 documentary" seems pretty much equivalent to "it's a sensationalist lie".
Remember, these are the people responsible for Big Brother and Space Cadets, and that's just in the last month...
Anyway:
- BBC article here.
- Response from Dyslexia Institute here
No, I wrote that! Name-dyslexia?
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
So, do we debate with dyslexia-deniers, or are they just evil?
Only if their posts are spelt and punctuated correctly.
*ducks and runs*
Why is dyslexia such a hard word to spell?
Seriously, I'd heard about this a while back, I think its disgraceful! People with dyslexia have to fight so hard in life as it is, with the negative thoughts that this sort of thing could raise about the condition, it only makes things harder for them.
I'm outraged that Gadget has used the incidence of dyslexia to defend his lazyness in posting with consistently bad spelling. It is insulting to those suffering from the condition.
Gadget has proved that he can spell correctly. He even had a little spelling joke in his post http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=7429 where he used "slop" instead of slipThis means that Gadget is posting with bad spelling for some other reason. It can't be because he doesn't have the time. Some of his posts must have taken hours to compose.
Well, they're employed by Channel 4 - what do you think?
He didn't. It was me that started talking about dyslexia...
He used "slap", rather than "slip", which was my joke originally, but seems to have gained some currency across the forum.He even had a little spelling joke in his post http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=7429 where he used "slop" instead of slip
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
Never mind why dyslexia is hard to spell, why is "your" or "their" hard to spell? The English language is littered with words that are not spelt in a logical manner, but have to be learnt. Dyslexics can have problems with this.
Let your mind go and your body will follow. – Steve Martin, LA Story
As a mother of 2, one being a daughter who excels at English and the other, a son, who IS Dyslexic, I have no doubt in my mind, that the statement is utter B****cks
If a programme had been made about "The Autism myth", and simply because there are a range of autistic conditions, recommended "tell them to talk to people more", I'd be just as offended...
He used "slap", rather than "slip", which was my joke originally, but seems to have gained some currency across the forum.
Dear Abbey,
I have a terrible problem. Aside from that though, I'd like your advice: I want to crack that old joke about "the dyslexic atheist who denied the existence of dog" - but I can't decide whether to do it in this thread, or the one about Tolerance in America, which seems to have moved onto a chat about the semantics of words to describe belief systems.
What should I do?
Yours,
Donkey-boy
Stop using weird fonts?
Oh - hold on, wrong thread, got confused there for a second...
He even had a little spelling joke in his post http://www.cerocscotland.com/forum/s...ead.php?t=7429 where he used "slop" instead of slip[Pedant mode] He had both 'slop' instead of 'slip' in 'slop of the fingers' as an intentional mistake, and 'slap' instead of 'slip' in 'Freudian slap' which has been in general forum usage for a while now. [/Pedant mode]He used "slap", rather than "slip", which was my joke originally, but seems to have gained some currency across the forum.
Oops. Sorry.
Due to posting in excessive hurry before leaving for work. Profuse apologies
Good grief.
{Lies down in dark room}
The thesis goes as follows.
At some point in the past, education professionals noticed that there was something unusual going on. There were pupils who had difficulty reading; some were obviously not that intelligent, so reading difficulties were pretty much to be expected. However, some were clearly highly intelligent, and so (applying the logical principle of 'begging the question') they assumed there must be something extra-ordinarily wrong with these bright, bad readers, and coined a term for the newly-discovered syndrome. (It wasn't said what yardstick was used to measure intelligence, but this being America and England, it was probably IQ tests.)
Recently, some highly regarded educational psychologists have - apparently over many years - come to the conclusion that there is no functional difference between the reading problems experienced by dyslexics and those experienced by the 'duffers'. Furthermore, the successful methods of treating these reading difficulties work equally well whether it is a dyslexic or a duffer who is receiving the 'treatment'.
Some of them have concluded that dyslexia - in its proper usage which was confined to bright pupils with reading problems - is a name without a syndrome.
It occurs to me that another way to deal with the position is to extend 'dyslexia' to cover all people who experience this type of reading difficulty, whatever their IQ.
No, I don't have a reference, ESG, but DavidJames is correct that it was a channel four documentary.
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