Dystechia

 

Here is a comment I made this morning, on a FB post by Dyslexia Inspired.

This resonates deeply with views I've been expressing since 2010. Back in 2004, when I began investigating why many intelligent children could fluently read in Malay and Pinyin (Hanyu Pinyin) but struggled with English, the prevailing explanation was a phonological awareness deficit as the root cause of dyslexia.

I wrote extensively on social media challenging that theory, arguing it couldn't hold because these same children demonstrated strong phonological skills in more consistent orthographies like Malay and Pinyin.

That dominant theory faced significant scrutiny and was largely reframed or debunked around 2017, with emerging research highlighting its limitations.

Now, it feels like the same old idea is being repackaged with new terminology—what I'd call putting fresh lipstick on the same pig.

For more on my early writings, Google search "phonological awareness luqman michel"

Here are comments on the post:

 Jan Orocobix

Yes, Dr. Tim Conway has used this term for years. Did he originally coin the term?

 

 Tim Conway

Thank you Jan Orocobix - I’m sure that term has been around for decades before I mentioned it online.

Sadly, there are minimal improvements in the field of education towards becoming a truly evidence-based profession, ie having the same standards and caliber of scientific support for literacy instruction as all healthcare services for children are required for have before they are given to children - schools

use children as “guinea pigs” every day with untested and unproven and even proven to be ineffective literacy programs. Thankfully, healthcare is ethically and legally prevented from using children as “guinea pigs” for treatments and healthcare services. We must demand the same standard of care with scientifically proven and highly effective services for our childrens’ education too.

#DyslexiaScience and #EmpoweredDyslexia are two terms that I have not seen others use online, but those additional terms, like #Dystechia, are ones that I know Dyslexia Inspired understands very well and helps educate families and children about too.

 

 

Luqman Michel

Jan Orocobix This is the guy who deleted my discussion with him when he could not answer many questions I asked. LINK