Many parents of children with reading disabilities (and some advocates and attorneys) insist that the Wilson Reading System (Wilson) is the only reading method that can help their child learn to read. They claim it’s the scientifically proven method for overcoming dyslexia and other reading disabilities, and thus the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act of 2004 (IDEA) supports it.
They’re wrong. And if they take this argument to court, and the school’s experts are well-versed in the research, the school has valid reasons for prefering its methodology, the IEP’s goals and objectives and services are sound, and the hearing officer or judge believes, like most do, that courts should not overturn a school’s decision about methodology, the parents will likely lose. Read more...
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About.com, a New York Times Company, has an excellent website that provides parents and teachers with valuable information that can help them help children. It’s at http://learningdisabilities.about.com. By reading this frequently updated website and our blog, you’ll increase your chances of helping children succeed academically, socially, and emotionally. In other words, the more you learn, the more likely your decisions will help children.
To get a sense of http://learningdisabilities.about.com, we recommend that you read these three posts:
1. What Is a Learning Disability?
http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/whatisld/a/whatissld.htm
2. How Are Learning Disabilities Diagnosed?
http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/learningdisabilitybasics/a/LDdiagnosproces.htm
3. Learn How to Advocate for Your Child
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Often, no.
With enthusiasm, dedication, and genuine tears of gratitude, many parents advocate for particular reading programs, programs they claim cured their child’s dyslexia. They’re joined by many teachers and private reading consultants. These proponents—genuine in their beliefs and unbridled enthusiasm for particular programs—ignore these possibilities: Read more...
- Good teaching, rather than the particular program, was responsible.
- The placebo effect was operating, as it often does. A sugar pill can sometimes be as effective as a brand name pill costing $100.
- The program works for some children, but only for a few.
- Other programs would have worked as well, or better.
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From Reading & Other Learning Disabilities
A Blog by Dr. Gary G. Brannigan and Dr. Howard Margolis
Parents often ask me, “My child struggles with reading. What’s the best reading program for him?” Unfortunately, for two reasons, this question can’t be answered. First, programs do not teach reading–teachers do. As Richard Allington, past President of the International Reading Association, so rightly asserted: “In the end, enhanced reading proficiency rests largely on the capacity of classroom teachers to provide expert, exemplary reading instruction. . . . Teaching cannot be packaged. Exemplary teaching is not regurgitation of a common script but is responsive to children’s needs. In the end it will become clearer that there are no ‘proven programs,’ just schools in which we find more expert teachers–teachers who need no script to tell them what to do.” Read more...
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