Stacy Hurst of Reading Horizons - Blocked me when questioned.

 

My Twitter account says:

@StacyHurst15 has blocked you 

We will return to Gwendolyn but for now, let us discuss the following post on a current LinkedIn post.

In 2010 I disagreed with the theory that phonological awareness deficit is the cause of dyslexia (kids not being able to read) and wrote extensively until that theory was debunked in 2017. LINK

There are still many researchers bent on bringing that debunked theory alive. Here is a LinkedIn post by Ethan Lynn, Ph.D. on whose previous posts I said why this theory is incorrect. 

 

Ethan Lynn

Many educators believe that dyslexia is rooted in issues with the orthographic processor, but research shows it’s the phonological processor that is most often impaired.

Note: Where is the research that says 20% of the world has impaired phonological processors?

The powers that be know - ‘If a lie is only printed often enough, it becomes a quasi-truth, and if such a truth is repeated often enough, it becomes an article of belief, a dogma, and men will die for it.’

 

Luqman Michel 

Keep conning the world that phonological processor is the problem when teachers teach the wrong sounds of the letters.

When kids cannot blend, blame the kids.

Tell me Ethan Lynn, PhD how do you expect kids to blend guh eh tuh to form the word get?

Did you read my post? LINK

 

Ethan Lynn, PhD Author

Successive blending is what we do at Reading Horizons, which eliminates those extraneous sounds often accompanying stop consonants. For example, 'cat' would be reduced to 'ca' and then made into 'cat'. The vowel following the consonant necessarily eliminates those extra sounds.

Note: We will examine this nonsense in my next post.

Luqman Michel 

Ethan Lynn, PhD I will write a post on this and DM you. In 2010, I contacted Dr. Joe Torgesen through a discussion with Reading Horizons.

You may want to talk with Stacy Hurst, an assistant professor of reading at Southern Utah University and Chief Academic Officer at Reading Horizons who leads parents and teachers astray. Here is the link.

I request you to read the nonsense that Stacy Hurst, Chief Academic Officer at Reading Horizons, said on the podcast.

Perhaps Ethan Lynn could enlighten us on some of the matters I pointed out in the podcast.

i.                    At minute 8.03: There is a limit as to how many words can be memorised – I heard 2,000 words.

ii.                  At minute 10.22: All you can do with those words (HFW) is you can read them in the text but they are not really yours; then when you want to use them in a sentence that use many of the same words you can’t spell them correctly, you are spelling it 4 different ways.

iii.               At minute 15.53: we need to connect and map the sound to the spelling for orthographic mapping.

iv.                At minute 16.18: there are some phonetic elements that we haven’t taught yet that will be temporarily mapped until we teach the phonetic approach and then it will help.

v.                  At minute 17.20: What’s the take away for teachers to teach HFW; we don’t want to teach them as whole units; we don’t want to encourage them to memorise them visually. We want to help teach them in a way to facilitate them with orthographic mapping of HFW.

You may read my thoughts on the above on the link.

The question to ask would be who is funding Reading Horizons?

Why are they misleading the public?

Why are they teaching phonics wrongly as explained by Ethan Lynn?