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Dyslexia a cruel fiction, says MP - David Guyatt - 20-01-2009
Arrganto Wkaner spkeas otu!
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Dyslexia a cruel fiction, says MP
Wednesday, January 14 01:40 pm
A Labour MP has claimed dyslexia is a myth to cover up bad teaching of reading and writing.
Graham Stringer, MP for Manchester Blackley, also suggested there was a link between illiteracy and crime - as prisons were full of people unable to read and write.
He described the condition as a "cruel fiction" and suggested the dyslexia "industry" should be "killed off" through the "magic bullet" of teaching children to read and write by using a phonetic system of sounding letters and words.
He made the comments while writing a column for Manchester Confidential, an entertainment and review website about the city. Mr Stringer said he has visited Strangeways jail in his constituency and of the prison population, roughly 80% of inmates are functionally illiterate and a similar number are drug abusers.
"I don't believe in panaceas, but I am confident that if the rate of literacy were improved there would be an inevitable decline in crime. Children who cannot read or write find secondary school a humiliating and frustrating experience. Their rational response, with dire consequences, is to play truant.
"Drugs, burglaries, robberies and worse, then, often, follow."
Shirley Cramer, chief executive officer of the educational charity Dyslexia Action, said: "Once again dyslexia seems to be making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
"It is frustrating that the focus should be on whether dyslexia exists or not, when there is so much evidence to support that it does. It is true that there is a strong link between literacy and unemployment."
"And we know from our own research that there is a higher percentage of offenders amongst the prison and probation populations who are dyslexic or have literacy difficulties.
"However, these individuals are no more likely to commit a crime and the associated links are the result of reduced opportunity due to poor educational attainment."
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as a mild dyslexic sufferer of 60 years standing I feel I should be spending more time in prison for demonstrating my myth so ably. And because syldexia is not in the least bit real, nor then the hereditary continuation of it, then both my sons and my grandson should also be spending time behind bars too...
Dyslexia a cruel fiction, says MP - Richard Welser - 21-01-2009
David Guyatt Wrote:Arrganto Wkaner spkeas otu!
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Dyslexia a cruel fiction, says MP
Wednesday, January 14 01:40 pm
A Labour MP has claimed dyslexia is a myth to cover up bad teaching of reading and writing.
Graham Stringer, MP for Manchester Blackley, also suggested there was a link between illiteracy and crime - as prisons were full of people unable to read and write.
He described the condition as a "cruel fiction" and suggested the dyslexia "industry" should be "killed off" through the "magic bullet" of teaching children to read and write by using a phonetic system of sounding letters and words.
He made the comments while writing a column for Manchester Confidential, an entertainment and review website about the city. Mr Stringer said he has visited Strangeways jail in his constituency and of the prison population, roughly 80% of inmates are functionally illiterate and a similar number are drug abusers.
"I don't believe in panaceas, but I am confident that if the rate of literacy were improved there would be an inevitable decline in crime. Children who cannot read or write find secondary school a humiliating and frustrating experience. Their rational response, with dire consequences, is to play truant.
"Drugs, burglaries, robberies and worse, then, often, follow."
Shirley Cramer, chief executive officer of the educational charity Dyslexia Action, said: "Once again dyslexia seems to be making the headlines for all the wrong reasons.
"It is frustrating that the focus should be on whether dyslexia exists or not, when there is so much evidence to support that it does. It is true that there is a strong link between literacy and unemployment."
"And we know from our own research that there is a higher percentage of offenders amongst the prison and probation populations who are dyslexic or have literacy difficulties.
"However, these individuals are no more likely to commit a crime and the associated links are the result of reduced opportunity due to poor educational attainment."
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as a mild dyslexic sufferer of 60 years standing I feel I should be spending more time in prison for demonstrating my myth so ably. And because syldexia is not in the least bit real, nor then the hereditary continuation of it, then both my sons and my grandson should also be spending time behind bars too...
Several assertions by Stringer/article. Just responses. (am ADD myself)
Dyslexia (is a broad and functionally-specifically meaningless diagnosis but does serve to describe a range of receptive/expressive impairments with respect to language.
Reading (verbal receptive), oral expressive and written expressive abilities can and are often now impaired. (phonetics training - the magic bullet - notwithstanding - (and, as an aside, three patients I had were not benefiting much from phonetics training..... ) Much more now than in the past to my memory. These are definable impairments in neuropsychology.
Same with Tourrette's, Autistic spectrum disorders, ad nauseum.
I don't recall seeing my first 'Austistic' or '- spectrum disordered (Rhett's or Aspergers, etc.) patient for years from then. Now... in last few years -and not due only to Big Pharm's pushing - I see them frequently. And ADHD, anger/impulsiveness/mood regulation disorders. And reports from several patients that their children did not begin to exhibit symptoms until inoculations received. Including the development of childhood seizure disorder. (seizures begin in early childhood, continue into adolescence and often disappear around then. may or may not be grand mal)
Stringer .. what ? .... unless he is disinfo. Implicitly pushing for more examination and control. Control this and that .... always more control.
--- the literacy issue, however, is statistically real. It has often been said that How you use language is a most crucial determinant of employment/career success. Kinda like 'My Fair Lady', I suppose..... The rain in Spain falls mainly in the plain........