[NIFL-LD:4744] RE: research participants needed (Los Angeles area)

From: Glenn Young (gyoungxlt@comcast.net)
Date: Sun May 01 2005 - 13:08:23 EDT


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 j41H8NG27977; Sun, 1 May 2005 13:08:23 -0400 (EDT)
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 13:08:23 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <200505011707.j41H7fG27871@literacy.nifl.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: "Glenn Young" <gyoungxlt@comcast.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov>
Subject: [NIFL-LD:4744] RE: research participants needed (Los Angeles area)
X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas
X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook, Build 11.0.5510
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: text/plain;
Status: O
Content-Length: 2387
Lines: 59

Catharina Brandwijk, Ph.D. candidate at cabrandwijk@yahoo.com.

Almost every college in the United States has an office of Disabled Student
Services or something to that degree.  If you need college students with
dyslexia, I suggest you pick a college or colleges and work through the
office there.

However, I urge you not to attempt to norm a diagnostic protocal based only
on college students since that is only one tail of the bell curve of adults
with LD/dyslexic.  We know from data on those identified (never mind those
not identified) that only a small percent of students who are receiving
services in K-12 for LD/dyslexia make it into college (something between
4-10% based on what data pool you look at) and therefore 90-96% of those
with LD/dyslexia are not in that college setting.

To develop a diagnostic protocal based only on the profile of the most
successful is a grave mistake and only purpertrates myths about
LD/dyslexia... Including that it is a "mild handicapping condition"... 

Any diagnostic protocal needs to be based on a true representation of the
population ... You will find a far greater percent of those with dyslexia in
prisons, welfare programs and job training programs then you will in
colleges, and most of these individuals were not identified in schools, or
is identified never given appropriate interventions.

I wish you success your efforts, but please make the research authentic and
not filled with selection bias.


Glenn Young
505 East Braddock Rd # 608
Alexandria VA 22314
703-684-1750
gyoungxlt@comcast.net
 

-----Original Message-----
From: nifl-ld@nifl.gov [mailto:nifl-ld@nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Catharina
Brandwijk
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 5:44 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [NIFL-LD:4742] research participants needed (Los Angeles area)

I am a graduate student and currently working on my dissertation, which
involves the development of a new test that could be useful in early
detection of dyslexia as well as etiology. 

I need college students officially diagnosed with dyslexia.  You will earn
$50 for your participation. 
You need to live in the LA area.  

For more information, contact Catharina Brandwijk, Ph.D. candidate at
cabrandwijk@yahoo.com.

__________________________________________________
Do You Yahoo!?
Tired of spam?  Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
http://mail.yahoo.com 



This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Mon Oct 31 2005 - 09:49:49 EST