Dr. Richard Selznick in our email discussions in 2010 said:
“I agree with you that many of these kids are instructional casualties and if they had been taught differently, many would not have shut down.”
Please keep in mind that what I say and how I respond are based on my experiences and understanding of the research. I am not a scientist or researcher, but I respond from my decades of clinical experience.
Siegfried Engelmann:
And the mistakes that the kids made guided us to see that we had something missing. For instance, at first, we had them sound out words traditionally. We never permitted "ch-aa-tah” for chat. Unvoiced sounds were unvoiced -- "ch-a-t." Well, they showed us through their responses that that stop sound beginning was really hard for them.
So now we had precise corrections that related to what they had learned earlier. We had a procedure for sounding it out that would reach virtually 100 percent of the kids. So, we could teach even really low performers now to take the first step on the ladder. Then they can follow the entire sequence and they can learn at a rate far faster than would have been anticipated.
My comment: That has been my Mantra since 2010. Teach kids the proper pronunciation of phonemes. Timothy Shanahan was in this team of ‘experts’ in Children of the Code and yet he asked me for scientific evidence on this exact matter.
David Boulton:
You mean hundreds of kids that were labeled as having some learning disability or dyslexia, that once you met them the right way, given the way that they had adapted to the teaching that they had had, you were able to pull them through it?
Siegfried Engelmann:
Right.
My comment: With all this information received more than 15 years ago do Timothy Shanahan and David Boulton still want scientific evidence?
Why did David Boulton disconnect me when I asked this same question on LinkedIn? Why did Timothy Shanahan not respond to my comments in his blog on this same matter? LINK
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