Please listen to an excellent interview by Martin Bloomfield with Julian (Joe) Elliott. LINK
Julian has explained many matters concerning reading difficulties explicitly.
I will write a post on this interview in the next few days. It would be useful if you listened to the interview above first.
I wrote to Julian Elliott in 2010 and told him that I disagreed with what is termed dyslexia and asked him to read my posts on my blog. He replied that he would.
If he had read my posts, he would have known the answer to why many kids can’t read and are wrongly classified as dyslexic. He would not have had to grope in the dark for more than a decade.
Julian:
My questions were not being answered by anyone I was speaking with.
I wrote to him and requested him to read my blog posts.
Julian:
‘People who are supposed to be experts in the field’.
Who are the experts? The experts are my students who could not read in English when they came to me for tuition. We should listen to them rather than the so-called experts who copy-paste material they read and refuse to accept anything new as it contradicts what they have said for decades.
Julian:
What I mean by that is let's return to the original meaning of this term which is a severe and persistent problem with reading and we can use that to discuss or describe children.
So, the whole dyslexia debate is only about changing squiggles to language and that does not require high IQ.
Martin Bloomfield:
Certain as it were certain reading interventions that don't work with some kids and these may be the kids that would previously have been called dyslexic.
We shall discuss the above two points in my next post.
Meanwhile, Julian also said:
Dyslexia is a multi-billion-dollar business.
In 2010 I wrote a post on Dyslexia being a Multi-Million Dollar business. LINK
Read the comments on the above post to see the meaning of FUD.
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