December 04, 2024, Christopher Peak, APM Reports. LINK
This story was originally published by APM Reports, an investigative reporting group based at American Public Media, and is part of an editorial partnership between WBUR and APM Reports.
My thoughts:
Who is funding APM reports?
What nonsense is this about investigative reporting? How do they investigate?
I wrote to Emily Hanford and APM Reports in 2017.
Here are
extracts of the emails to and from Emily Hanford and APM. Note the dates of the email.
Luqman Michel
Dear Sir,
I read your article 'How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia’ dated 11.9.2017 with great interest.
I have been teaching so-called 'dyslexic' kids for more than 13 years and I am convinced that illiteracy levels can be reduced drastically if kids are taught properly. I have the answers. Do you have the ears to listen?
Emily Hanford responded: 15 September 2017
Michel,
Thanks for writing.
Yes, you raise many relevant and important points. Unfortunately, there are no satisfying answers as to why the research is being ignored. The documentary seeks to provide some explanations and history and to point out how important it is that schools start paying attention to the research.
Have you heard the full hour-long radio documentary?
Note: There was nothing new in the Podcast that I have not heard or read on the internet.
luqman michel To:Hanford, Emily - Sun, 17 Sept 2017
Hi again Emily,
I have read the passage as well as heard the podcast.
Back in 2010 I wrote to more than 20 professors in UK, US, and NZ and said that I disagreed with the notion that children are dyslexic because of a 'phonological awareness deficit'. I also wrote to many universities but no one accepted what I had to say as that notion of phonological awareness deficit was reported more than 35 years ago and more than 100 professors had echoed it without thinking.
I, however, noticed a lot of activity in my blog at that time from university students. Soon after that a few researchers came out and agreed with what I had been saying on the internet, in blogs that talked about 'phonological awareness deficit' and in my own blog.
Please do a Google search on 'Phonological awareness Luqman' and 'dyslexia Luqman' and you will see my articles and posts in my blog and elsewhere.
I can also send you the emails to and from the professors and universities but I believe that would be unnecessary.
I don't agree with there being 10 to 20% of kids who are dyslexic. This is a fallacy. Any and every kid who can't read is lumped under the umbrella term 'dyslexia'. I have also been writing about this for many years and hopefully, some universities will take this up for study.
A majority of the kids classified as dyslexic are shut-down or disengaged kids.
They shut down or disengage because they have been taught wrongly. About 20% of kids around the world shut down when they are confused. These are the kids who like to be taught explicitly. When what is taught does not match with what they already know or have been taught they disengage from learning to read.
All these are explained in detail in my blog at: www.dyslexiafriend.com
Hanford, Emily To:luqman michel - Sun, 17 Sept 2017 at 20:00
I will take a look.
Thanks.
Emily
luqman michel To:Hanford, Emily - Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 18:06
Dear Emily,
I just read your article on 'Why millions of kids can't read'.
I still believe that you will make a great impact on your listeners/readers if we do a
Q&A session on why kids can't read despite Phonics.
Sounds of the alphabet are taught wrongly throughout the world and that is the main reason why many kids fail to read in English.
luqman michel To:ehanford@apmreports.org - Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 11:10
Hello Emily,
This is a gentle reminder that I am waiting for your response.
Regards,
Luqman Michel
Hanford, Emily To:luqman michel Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 20:42
Thanks for writing.
Since then I have tweeted Emily Hanford numerous times but have no response from her or the APM team members.
To be continued...
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