Corroborative evidence to my post on Identifying Students at Risk in Grade 1(Part 4)

 

It is mind boggling why someone like Dr. Reid Lyon who claims that he was researching why many kids can't read did not want to discuss this extremely important matter with me. Read what he had to say in an interview in the Children of the Code. 

I gave him the magic bullet that he was looking for and yet his wife claimed he did not have the time to discuss.

Dr. Reid Lyon:

“What struck me when I got in my third-grade classroom was about thirty percent of these nine-year old's couldn’t read well at all, some not at all. I couldn’t understand that because reading to me was not laborious and I took it for granted. I think by the end of the year the thirty percent that I didn’t help had extended to about forty percent because I screwed another ten percent up. I just didn’t have any idea what I was doing.

No one had ever talked to me about how reading develops and what you do when kids come to it differently”.

“I noticed a couple of things: How reading or the lack of reading development hurt them. I could see even with the nine-year-olds that when they were unable to read it seemed to me that, even if I had a magic bullet, they didn’t even want to try it. They had already started to avoid print and a lot of these kids would become active and look, in a sense, different and possibly would have been diagnosed as ADD. But their attentional difficulties were just simple avoidance. They would become distractable and fidgety when they had to read. Why? They wanted to get out of it. So, that affected me, both in my head and my heart, to watch these tender kids who have to perform in the most visible academic thing called reading and not be able to do it”.

 

In 2015 I wrote 2 emails to Dr. Reid Lyon explaining why kids shut down from learning to read. His wife replied to my third email and said they were busy travelling. Did he already know the answer to why kids can’t read and avoided responding?

Read my email to him and the reply by his wife. LINK

 

Ms. Nancy Hennessy who was the President of the International Dyslexia Association from 2013 to 2015 said:

 

“……even if we settle on a middle number, let us say 10%; that still leaves a lot of children who are not dyslexic, whose brains are not wired any different way, who have reading difficulty.”