Dyslexia in China - Comments on the YouTube video

 

I made a few comments on the YouTube video. LINK

My comments have been removed.

This has been my experience since I started writing on social media in 2010. I have learned to copy-paste as soon as I comment before my comments are deleted. 

Here is a comment by Teachers TV Africa:

@TeachersTVAfrica

Why do such educative and informative programs get very few views? Thank you, Martin for the great work. Most people in Africa don't have a clear understanding of what Dyslexia is.

 

Luqman Michel

Unfortunately, there is too much misinformation in this video.

Here is a comment by @DyslexiaBytes posted by Martin:

 

Thank you TeachersTVAfrica, I'm grateful. And yes, it was fascinating talking to Maggie and getting her opinion.

I'll ask you however to ignore Luqman Michel, he has a habit of spreading misinformation. I think he'd written a comment about "false information" in this because (from one of his other comments on the video) he's under the mistaken belief that scripts involving pictographs or logograms are somehow unaffected by dyslexia (he says "when you read these pictograms or logograms then the part of the dyslexic brain that struggles with phonological processing or phonological decoding doesn't actually read these logograms and so it's difficult to pick up dyslexia"), and said that I'm spreading false information for speaking with someone who said that dyslexia affects Chinese writing.

In truth, I've spoken in-depth with a number of Chinese-language / dyslexia researchers from around the world, and the consensus is that Luqman Michel's assumption is false, and dyslexia can indeed impact you while reading Chinese script.

(I apologise for having to write a "justifying" reply to you, but this person has been following me around social media saying several false things about me and publicly misinterpreting - in some cases knowingly after I and others had corrected him - things my conversation partners have said. While I don't now feel the need to respond to him, I do feel I should add a couple of corrections when he tells "third parties" negative things about me - I hope that's okay.

This was my response which has been removed:

@DyslexiaBytes: You said, 'then the part of the dyslexic brain that struggles with phonological processing or phonological decoding….'. This is a lie. The dyslexia brain or any brain with no acuity problems has no phonological processing problem. I have said several times that it is better to beg than to tell lies to make money from desperate mothers.

Teachers teach letters with extraneous sounds such as buh for b, kuh for c, Muh for m, etc. When the child cannot blend buhahtuh for the word bat the people with a vested interest call these kids dyslexic. I wrote over a hundred articles/comments on social media from 2010 to 2017 until the theory that phonological awareness deficit is the cause of dyslexia was debunked in 2017. Please Google 'phonological awareness deficit Luqman Michel' and see that my name is included in 3 research reports. LINK

 

Maggie Chiang said in the video above and I quote: 

'The Chinese language uses pictograms so dyslexia and symbols usually go hand in hand. A lot of the time these individuals might struggle in mathematics, chemistry, physics, or English.'

My thoughts now:

If what Martin is saying is true about me spreading ‘false information’ why was my reply to Martin removed?

Why doesn’t Martin comment and leave my comments for the world to see?

As you can see, they have disinformed the Western world that dyslexic kids cannot read in English due to phonological awareness deficits. They then went into China and spread false news there too. I am not sure who started teaching teachers to teach Pinyin using Bopomofo sounds. Now, they are doing the same in Africa. Is this guy interested in reducing illiteracy or creating dyslexics?

In the video, Maggie Chiang said, 'The Chinese language uses pictograms so dyslexia and symbols usually go hand in hand.’ So, where did Martin come up with the phonological processing part?