Yesterday, while surfing the internet I came across the word
wilful blindness.
Most of the ‘educated’ professors in UK as well as the USA
and Australia, I have dealt with, simply cannot accept that a majority of
children classified as dyslexic are actually shut down kids who shut down due
to wrong teaching.
Here are a few excerpts from a post on my blog in September
2017 on wilful Blindness.
Experts in ‘Children of the Code’ have said:
“….if children
don't have the right experiences during these sensitive periods for the
development of a variety of skills, including many cognitive and language
capacities, that's a burden that those kids are going to carry; the sensitive
period is over, and it's going to be harder for them." - Dr. Jack
Shonkoff, Chair, National Scientific Council on the Developing Child
“Most struggling
children are struggling because what they learned in the past is inadequately
resourcing or maladaptively directing their current learning.
The most important
step toward improving the health of our children’s learning is recognizing,
understanding, and minimizing, unhealthy learning.”
We still don’t
have the capacity nor the will to change what it is that we are doing with
reading early on and so consequently unless we make those significant changes
we are not only going to lose the dyslexics but I am also concerned about these
other children; these other struggling readers.” (Nancy Hennessy)
“….95% of those kids are instructional casualties. These are what we call as NBT – never been taught.”(Reid Lyon)
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