Comments on: It is still there http://TeachEffectively.com/2005/09/19/it-is-still-there/ Evidence-based teaching methods for helping students who are at risk for school failure or who have disabilities. Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:32:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: lizditz http://TeachEffectively.com/2005/09/19/it-is-still-there/#comment-2556 lizditz Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:13:02 +0000 http://johnl.edschool.virginia.edu/blogs/TeachEffectively/2005/09/19/it-is-still-there/#comment-2556 That reeks of the Davis method, doesn't it? I don't get as irate with Davis as I do with the scotopic sensitivity scam, or the vision training scam, or the DDAT scam, I don't know why. I suppose because it isn't as widespread as the eye-based "therapies" In our family's journey from non-reading dyslexia to reading (and still dyslexic, thanks for asking) two things were really surprising: the absolute horsepucky from the ed schools, and, well, this is hard to put into a well-formed sentence. Some teachers personalize too much. They respond to an LD child's disability as if the LD kid's difficulties were something the kid was doing to insult or denigrate the teacher. That reeks of the Davis method, doesn’t it? I don’t get as irate with Davis as I do with the scotopic sensitivity scam, or the vision training scam, or the DDAT scam, I don’t know why. I suppose because it isn’t as widespread as the eye-based “therapies”

In our family’s journey from non-reading dyslexia to reading (and still dyslexic, thanks for asking) two things were really surprising: the absolute horsepucky from the ed schools, and, well, this is hard to put into a well-formed sentence. Some teachers personalize too much. They respond to an LD child’s disability as if the LD kid’s difficulties were something the kid was doing to insult or denigrate the teacher.

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