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 f9PDMQ003930; Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:22:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 09:22:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <130.3911980.29096ba3@aol.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: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:3657] Re: No support for Phonetic awareness as X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Mac - Post-GM sub 146 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1802 Lines: 38 Dear Clif, Please tell me what you mean by "reading semantically." I have never come across this term, but I have used the phrase, as have others, "reading for meaning." As to the OG methodology: I was in the first wave of LD teachers 25 years ago. People knew very little about LD then but I remember OG being used, and people trained in the methodology from before 1975. The LD field has gotten much more sophisticated since then, and "dyslexia" has come to have a narrower meaning because many other LD problems have come to light which do not fit this profile. I have taught in 5, k-12 schools, also been an administrator in two. Techniques which were sure fire in one school never made it down the block to others, and that goes for OG and the Wilson method, a simplified version of OG. I upgraded my LD skills to the point where I was taking classes in brain research. Maybe we will reach the point where there are clear descriptions of LD profiles along with diagnostic tests for them. We are very far from that now. If you have read this list for a while, you know that Art LaChance and others feel that emotional difficulties can mimic LD behaviors, and often when the emotional issues are addressed the LD behaviors disappear. I said yesterday that as far as I know (I read research) good readers do read words phonetically, and then for meaning. The phonetic part is automatic. Brain scans (PET) show that the sounding out done by dyslexics takes place in a different part of the brain than the automatic reading of non-dyslexic readers. Essentially, dyslexic readers do have to struggle each time with phonics, decoding. I don't know of any research that specifically looks at OG as a variable, but there may be something out there. Andrea Andrea
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