Here is a comment from Educhatter which I would like you to ponder.
Siegfried Engelmann of blessed memory offered $100,000 to anyone who could send him a child whom he couldn’t teach to read. Engelmann’s money was never collected.
Faulty reading instruction has made tens of millions of innocent children suffer terribly. And it continues to do so.
Why does society not protect these vulnerable children from the misery inflicted by most public schools?
Here is a comment by Tom Berend on Educhatter I wrote about. LINK
He said the following:
The students are not “learning disabled”. There is nothing wrong with the CHILD. There was a famous but horribly flawed experiment, ‘dowel tapping’ that created the dyslexia industry. It should be as infamous as the vaccine-causes-autism fraud.
And here is a link he shared and my comments:
This morning (11.7.2023) I read a post on Educhatter. The following extract is of interest.
“Teaching Reading to Learning Disabled Children: A Fourth Approach.”
“Learning disabled children,” Bateman claimed, “have certain characteristics which require very precise and careful teaching of coding if they are to achieve mastery of initial reading skills.” Long before other researchers, she surveyed the “phenomenal growth” in the field of special education and was troubled by the imprecise definition of what constituted “learning disabilities.” Challenging the traditionalist view of reading and learning disabilities, Bateman claimed that the overriding assumption that “students who read poorly must themselves be deficient” needed to be re-examined and the possibility that “reading instruction was inadequate” given serious consideration. (Dr. Barbara D. Bateman 1976)
That declaratory statement was made in April 1976. What have our educators/ researchers done about it?
Is it learning disabled or teaching disabled?
Too many so-called educators on social media block me. They block me to prevent truth being known by others. They misrepresent to promote their products.
Jo Anne Gross was one of the first to block me. She blocked me on LinkedIn when I wrote that phonological awareness deficit is not the cause of dyslexia. In 2010, I also started promoting my Free of charge lessons on my blog for parents of kids unable to read. If teachers and parents know why kids are disengaging from learning to read, then Jo Anne Gross as an intervention business owner, may lose business.
