Disinformation circulated by dyslexia advocates

 

I refer to a LinkedIn post by Ethan Lynn where he said:

Truth: "Dyslexia is a language-based learning disorder which refers to a cluster of symptoms that result in people having difficulties with specific aspects of language, particularly phonological processing and/or orthographic processing in the area of reading."

I commented as follows:

Ethan Lynn, PhD again you are repeating what you have been saying without bothering to understand what we had discussed.

Teachers teach kids letters with extraneous sounds and then complain that they cannot blend because of phonological processing disorder.

Many children get confused and shut down from learning to read when they can't blend cuh ah tuh for the word cat. How do you expect them to blend duh ah guh for the word dog?

Did you read my post at LINK

Which part did you not understand?

Ignorance and arrogance (Part 2)

                                                         

This is a continuation of the misleading article dated 26.9.2023 by Marion Blank

Breaking phonics into its components lays bare its shortcomings. First, in the initial instruction, months are spent teaching children how to decode a minute set of simple, three-letter words like man, cat and bus that can be sounded out. Those words bear little resemblance to the content of any book, leaving children unprepared for actual reading.

What an exaggeration that is! Do we need to spend months to decode a minute set of simple three-letter words? It could be true if this woman is talking about teaching 5 minutes a week or so.

About 60 percent of the words on any page are “non-content words”—words like the, so and what that cannot be decoded by sounding out. The result is that children have no solid tools for dealing with the most frequent words they see on every page.

Disinformation by SoR advocates

 

I saw the following image on LinkedIn and commented on it. I then happened to see that that image was liked by 83 members and was re-posted by 42 of them. I then decided to post this on my blog hoping to get some comments from those who re-posted. Will any of the 42 educators have anything to say? It will be an interesting discussion.

 

The following are my comments on the LinkedIn post.