Herd Mentality and the Comfort of Consensus
Recap: Why They Block
In Part 1, I exposed how my free, results-driven lessons threaten the dyslexia intervention industry. That’s why I’ve been blocked by prominent figures like:
Jo Anne Gross
Debbie Hepplewhite
As mentioned in my blog post yesterday, Ethan said that Reading Horizon teaches the word cat as follows:
At Reading Horizons, we use successive blending to eliminate the extraneous sounds often accompanying stop consonants.
For example, 'cat' would be reduced to 'ca' and then made into 'cat'. The vowel following the consonant necessarily eliminates those extra sounds.
What nonsense is Ethan Lynn and Reading Horizons disseminating to the masses?
My Twitter account says:
We will return to Gwendolyn but for now, let us discuss the following post on a current LinkedIn post.
In 2010 I disagreed with the theory that phonological awareness deficit is the cause of dyslexia (kids not being able to read) and wrote extensively until that theory was debunked in 2017. LINK
There are still many researchers bent on bringing that debunked theory alive. Here is a LinkedIn post by Ethan Lynn, Ph.D. on whose previous posts I said why this theory is incorrect.
