Not to be ignorant, Andrea, but what is a specialist in reading
assessments?  Is that different than an in-school LD assessment or a psych
and IQ assessment?

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:55 PM, <andreawilder at comcast.net> wrote:


> The MRI is a type of brain scan.  How does the teacher know it isn't

> physical?  And what does "physical" mean in this context?  Not much.  I

> would want to take my daughter to a specialist in reading assessments.

>

> Andrea

>

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> From: "Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt" <katherine.gotthardt at gmail.com>

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> Subject: [LearningDisabilities 4247] Re: Brain research in education

>

> I just went to my daughter's parent/teacher conference yesterday, and once

> again, was disturbed about her reading level.  She stayed back in

> Kindergarten and is now a fifth grader.  Her reading and comprehension

> skills are between 2nd and 3rd grade, even with summer school and extra help

> over the summer.  I asked the teacher if she thought I should take my

> daughter to have a second MRI to make sure nothing is wrong.  The teacher

> didn't seem to think it was anything physical and assured me if she did

> think it was physical, she would have told me long ago.

>

> Can someone explain how a brain scan is different from an MRI?

>

> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 12:52 PM, Nora Chahbazi <ooprc at comcast.net> wrote:

>

>>  I just received a brochure for a conference titled 'Smarter Brains:

>> Using Brain Rearch to Raise IQ and Achievement' at the 25th Learning and the

>> Brain Conference in Sanfrisco in Feb, 2001.  Some of the workshop titles

>> are" Neurointelligence and Education: Is it Time to Require Students to have

>> a Brain Scan?" and 'What Neuroscience can teach us about Teaching' - along

>> with many others.   This is a perfect example of the feeling of confusion

>> and frustration by those of us trying to teach reading or anything else!

>> There has just been a disdcussion on this list about how neuroscience and

>> education are not connected and then I am exposed to this conference that

>> has 3 days of educating educators in the power of neuroscience in

>> education.  How does one choose who to believe?  Maybe neuroscience in

>> education is akin to snake oil, maybe it is the best thing since sliced

>> bread.  How would someone decipher the truth from 2 opposite camps

>> proclaiming 'the truth'.  I have found this phenomena to be a source of

>> frustration throughout my journey of learning how to teach reading.  Many

>> research studies come to totally opposite conclusions about what is great

>> and what is horrible amd damaging.(For example:  Whole language is the

>> answer!  Phonics is the answer!......Teach them to memorize the words and

>> the book to foster comprehension!  They must have significant

>> repetition/drill in phonemic awareness and phonics before ever reading a

>> book!,....  Look at the picture to get meaning!  Do not look at the picture;

>> we don't read pictures! ..... Teach the phonics rules in order to read the

>> words!  Don't teach phonics rules because they are developmentally

>> inappropriate and slow you down!.....  You must learn the letter names to

>> read!  You do not use the letter names in reading!....and on an on) leaving

>> the consumer to scratch their head and get mired in the confusion of all

>> this conflicting information.  Who does one believe?   In the meantime, the

>> numbers of poor/non readers of every age continue to eacalate.  How do those

>> on this list deal with this?!

>> Thanks,

>> Nora

>>

>>

>>  Nora Chahbazi, President

>> EBLI Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction

>> Ounce of Prevention Reading Center

>> www.ebli.org

>> 810.732.4810

>> fax 810.732.0366

>>

>>

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