For over a decade, starting in 2010, I challenged the prevailing 50-year-old theory that phonological awareness deficits cause dyslexia. Through more than 100 social media comments and articles, I argued against this consensus—only to face widespread rejection. Educators dismissed my views, and many blocked me outright. The irony? In an era of information overload, critical thinking seemed scarce.
Many ‘educators’ from the US have blocked me but I can’t recollect any from the US who have blocked me and said things behind my back. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for some Australians and the British.
Recently I created a second account on Twitter and saw the following tweets from Peter Blenkinsop from the UK.
This guy is a secondary school teacher and has never taught kids to learn to read and yet argues with me about how to teach kids to learn to read.
Here is our chat which is self-explanatory. It started on December 23rd 2020 and ended on January 30th 2021.
Her profile on Twitter says:
Australian Teacher. Highly Accomplished. Passion for literacy. Master Reading and Literacy. Mother of 4 boys. Out-of-field secondary science. Joined (Twitter) December 2020
I surfed the net to see if I could find newspaper articles on dyslexic children in Japan and I chanced upon the following article about a dyslexic Australian boy in Japan.
The article is dated 10th July 1999. That was 10 years ago. You can read the full article here.
I have copied some of the salient points:
