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 f9K3Tb020118; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:29:37 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 23:29:37 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011020101832.00a00080@mail> 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: Clifton Willard <clifwillard@home.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3625] No support for Phonetic awareness as cause of reading X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Status: O Content-Length: 2095 Lines: 35 As an introduction, My name is Clif Willard and I am a Licensed Professional Mental Health Service Provider in Tennessee. I have a masters degree in communications and a second masters degree in educational and counseling psychology. I also spent 2 years in a graduate program for special education, multiple disabilities. I read on a third grade level and have ADHD myself. I attended thirteen different elementary schools and dropped out of high school after six weeks in the ninth grade. I am an adjunct assistant professor and teach a graduate class in ADHD and Language Based Disabilities. I am in private practice and concentrate on young adult and adult clients with language based disabilities and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. Most clients participate in counseling on a weekly basis for several years rather then short term therapy. Several years ago I participated in this list. At that time I felt that there was no real support for the idea that a lack of phonetic awareness was the cause of a reading disability. Over the last 10 years I have not found any research that supports this theory. My clinical experience does however support the notion that a reading disability is caused by a perceptual deficit and that this perceptual deficit is caused by a timing problem of one of the processors being out of sync with the other processors in the system. It is a timing problem and dynamic. Because it is dynamic, people with a reading disability can appear to "do it" one minute but can't ten minutes later. It is part of the disability, not an indication that they are "getting it." A broken clock tells the correct time twice a day. I am aware that 98 percent of the research supports phonetic awareness as does Sally Shaywits at Yale. I have looked at much of the research and find that it makes all kinds of assumptions that are not supported in the experience of those with the disabilities. Dr. Shaywits' research seems to epitomize the folly of the research on reading disabilities/dyslexia. I was wondering what you think?? Clif
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