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 f9MCvi013762; Mon, 22 Oct 2001 08:57:44 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 08:57:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3BD41771.9A8A18F8@ellijay.com> 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: Art LaChance <arthur@ellijay.com> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3629] Re: No support for Phonetic awareness as cause of X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) Status: O Content-Length: 2969 Lines: 61 Clif, MEd in Rehab Counseling I have. Worked with bunches of LD, ADD, ADHD, Brain Injured, and mental health, children and adults, in several formats and environments. Currently in adult literacy, working with the same groups. It's not a black and white issue. Many different ways to break an arm. Your understanding holds true for a very limited percentage of those saddled with the disablility, and it needs to be noted that the LD ADD ADHD titles are disabling all in themselves. It often appears that the community completing the assessment doesn't always know what they're looking at and the requesting authority only is concerned with getting a label for the child. I could go on but basically I support anything Don McCabe would tell you. Art Art LaChance Gilmer Learning Center Ellijay, GA Clifton Willard wrote: > 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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