Angie Neal @angie_neal Replying to @DoctorSam7 @AGoninan
@reading_league @ReadWellAlaska
Part of the reason it’s difficult
to have a strong dyslexia screening is because it’s difficult to tease out
instructional casualties who have never received systematic and explicit
instruction in PA and phonics.
Readers of this thread - note that
dyslexia screener difficulties are BECAUSE OF INSTRUCTION THAT IS NOT
EVIDENCE-BASED!
I then twitted.
I believe you got this wrong. Tell
me, please, how there can be instructional casualties if no PA and phonics have
been taught.
My comment now:
It was Dr. Reid Lyon who first coined the words
‘Instructional Casualties’ more than 20 years ago. However, no one has ever
said what it is that has been instructed wrongly that cause kids to disengage/
shut down from learning to read. I believe I am the first person to have
written on why kids shut down/ disengage from learning to read. Read more in my
post here.
Dr. Nancy Hennessy, President of IDA between 2003 and 2005
said “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.” Read
more here.
What does Angie mean when she says; note that dyslexia
screener difficulties are BECAUSE OF INSTRUCTION THAT IS NOT EVIDENCE-BASED!
It is such misinformation that is spread by SoR proponents
that irks me.
Angie Neal @angie_neal Replying to @DoctorSam7 @PATSTONE55
and 5 others
I’m not arguing for the sake of
argument. I’m responding to baseless claims in the name of every parent who has
told me their child wanted to kill themselves because they were taught to read
using approaches and curriculum that had no evidence kids should have learned
to read.
My response now:
This SoR advocate wants us to believe that kids told their parents that they wanted to kill themselves because of 'approaches and curriculum'. What utter rubbish is this? Would you ever believe that a child would ever say 'they wanted to kill themselves because they were taught to read using approaches and curriculum that had no evidence kids should have learned to read'?