Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id f25H8d924566; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:08:39 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:08:39 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <EF1B4BABBE61D411B86B00508BDFB2C00152CA40@wdcrobexc10.ed.gov> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Behroozi, Jaleh" <Jaleh_Behroozi@nifl.gov> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3360] Re: News articles on LD X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Status: O Content-Length: 2826 Lines: 77 Audrey et al, Thanks a lot for checking out the articles and commenting on them. Just to remind everyone, the purpose of News Flashes on LINCS is to share up-to-date NEWS on how literacy-related issues are presented in national or international media. The articles posted on the News Flashes are not NIFL approved or reflective of NIFL's position on these issues. For more in-depth information on major literacy-related topics, please check out LINCS Special Collections at: http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/collections.html. Materials on these collections have been carefully evaluated and selected by subject specialists. Thanks Jaleh Behroozi Soroui National LINCS Director National Institute for Literacy 1775 I. Street, NW, Suite 730 Washington D.C., 20006 Phone: 202/233-2039 FAX: 202/233-2050 www.nifl.gov/lincs -----Original Message----- From: Audrey Gorman [mailto:agorman@ala.org] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2001 4:29 PM To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: [NIFL-LD:3355] Re: News articles on LD Jaleh et al, I looked at a couple of the articles on dyslexia listed in News Flashes. Unfortunately, quite a bit of the information contained in these articles is controversial, at least insofar as they pertain to dyslexia. Many of our researchers on this subject in the U.S. are at best skeptical of colored lenses and some of the other interventions discussed. To see some reports on U.S. research, especially from some of the studies funded by NIH, go to http://www.ldonline.org/ld_indepth/reading/reading.html In talking to Reid Lyon of NIH and Sally Shaywitz of Yale, among others, I've become convinced that the stringent research methods that are being used in the NIH-funded projects is yielding information that stands up to rigorous questions and practical, objective testing. Not all research is up to such standards and not all results are robust when subjected to close scrutiny. At very least, whether we agree or not, we should all realize that this is still a very new area of real scientific inquiry. We need to evaluate everything we read as carefully as we can, not just take it at face value. With time, we'll learn what really works. Let's give some equal time to US research on LINCS! Thanks, Audrey >>> Jaleh_Behroozi@nifl.gov 03/02/01 17:18 PM >>> > Check out LINCS News Flashes at: > http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/whats_new/flash_1_2000.html > > There are several interesting articles from the National Post and other > magazines and newspapers on LD, dyslexia, and research on the brain in the > News Flashes dated Feb. 24-March 2, and Feb. 17-Feb. 23. > > > Jaleh Behroozi Soroui > National LINCS Director > National Institute for Literacy > 1775 I. Street, NW, Suite 730 > Washington D.C., 20006 > Phone: 202/233-2039 > FAX: 202/233-2050 > ww.nifl.gov/lincs >
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