I was also thinking to experiment with students learning English as a Second Language, to ascertain if they could hear what they are saying better in this way.  May give it a try.  Bonnita

Andrea Wilder <andreawilder at comcast.net> wrote:  Well, if this isn't a clever idea. Anybody else tried this??

Andrea

On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Grace Temple wrote:


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>

>> I also have often thought of dislexia this way.  From my own 

>> experience with my child who struggled with dislexia, I found that 

>> when teaching him phonics and phonemic awareness we were able to 

>> achieve a greater amount of sucess when we used a 'talk back'.  It is 

>> an old method used in special ed.  It's a half tube bent to go from 

>> the mouth to the ear.  When the student speaks or makes the letter 

>> sound, it is immediately sent round the tube to their own ear.  I 

>> have seen great progress with this.   I guess I just never tied it to 

>> deslexia.  I just thought that my inattentive resistive child needed 

>> something to keep him from being distracted.    It certainly deserves 

>> further study. 

>>

>> Grace Temple, Executive Director

>> Sanilac Literacy Council

>> templege at hotmail.com

>>

>> Hi KC and Andrea,

>>  

>> I think this is so interesting and relevant as it came out just 

>> shortly after we had some discussion about research priorities.  This 

>> certainly takes a real "hot topic" in the field and narrows it down 

>> to the least common denominators.  The results of scholarly research 

>> affect practice.  There were some interesting suggestions in the 

>> article that related to how it could affect instruction.  Even though 

>> most research is done with children and has to be adapted for our 

>> adult population, it is still noteworthy.

>>  

>> What do others think?

>>  

>> Thanks,

>>  

>> Rochelle

>>  

>>  

>> Rochelle Kenyon

>> Moderator, LINCS Learning Disabilities Discussion List

>> Center for Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee

>> RKenyon721 at aol.com 

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>> Rochelle--thanks for the calibre of this!  I rely on you to give us 

>> the

>> best, fast, this is worth looking  into.

>>

>> Thanks!

>>

>> Andrea

>>  

>>  

>>  

>> Hi Rochelle - I thought it was a fascinating premise (I saw is in  

>> Schwab Learning) and it confirmed some of my informal observations 

>> of  how dyslexic people approach reading.  However, I suspect that 

>> there may be room for both schools of thought (and probably more!) 

>> and what is causal for one dyslexic reader may not be true of all of 

>> them.

>>

>>  KC Andrew

>> Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

>> Adult Basic Education - Professional Development Services

>> 360/485-2338

>> kandrew at sbctc.ctc.edu 

>>  

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