It is mind boggling why someone like Dr. Reid Lyon who claims that he was researching why many kids can't read did not want to discuss this extremely important matter with me. Read what he had to say in an interview in the Children of the Code.
I gave him the magic bullet that he was looking for and yet his wife claimed he did not have the time to discuss.
Here are a few tweets and my response.
Luqman Michel @luqmanmichel
Most of the so-called dyslexic kids are kids who have disengaged from learning to read due to confusion. They shut down from learning to read. Get rid of the root causes and you will not have to blame Phonics or Lucy Calkins or BL.
Teaching EcoSystems Matter @CreditFlex
Not sure I’d say “most”. But really have had difficulty narrowing down the real percentage.
Luqman Michel @luqmanmichel
The dyslexia advocates try to convince the world it is around 15 to 20%. Some researchers have said it is about 2 %. Recently David Boulton said it s/b around 3 to 5 %.
Here is the latest discussion between David Boulton and
Andrew Johnson where this is mentioned. LINK
Debbie Hepplewhite
Jul 24, 2017 06:45 AMHi Tim,
I wonder if Luqman Michel was actually referring to the pronunciation of letters with an added "uh" which can be misleading rather than suggesting it is 'phonics' as such that is causing the problem?
I've watched part of the video and note that the pronunciation of phonemes as beginning sounds in words is not that great.
Instead of saying /k/, for example, the narrator/singer says /k+u/. Instead of /s/, /s+u/, instead of /m/, /m+u/ and so on.
