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 f9QCsc024095; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:54:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:54:39 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <50.b65f1c.290ab66d@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:3663] 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: 1119 Lines: 24 Clif, OK, I'll try this one. Dyslexia is what Lindamood Bell is treating--a misperception of certain sounds which affects how a person hears speech and how a person reads words. Certain sounds aren't registering. That is the point of teaching the person to observe the face of the person speaking, and to practice making the sounds themselves. This is the narrow view of dyslexia. Now, don't quote me chapter and verse on this, and I am not gearing up to a big argument. A friend who is from Bulgaria has trouble hearing and making the final consonant sounds on lots of English words. In Bulgarian the final consonants apparently soften to a "th" sound. "Would" becomes "wouldth." I know some of the Lindamood Bell techniques, so we have worked with mirrors and watching each others faces so he can hear and then make the hard final consonants. The above is just an anecdote about how useful the Lindamood Bell technique is in a different context. I am not saying that my Bulgarian friend has dyslexia, or people with dyslexia speak Bulgarian. Gee, how did I get into this anyway.... Andrea
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