http://LDBlog.com/2006/02/02/139/ News, commentary, and resources about Learning Disabilities Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:03:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://LDBlog.com/2006/02/02/139/#comment-561 Edibell Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:03:48 +0000 http://johnl.edschool.virginia.edu/blogs/LDBlog/2006/02/02/139/#comment-561 Professor Lloyd, My son was diagnosed with dyslexia by Carolyn Myers MEd an educational consultant in Richmond. She revied multiple tests-WISC-IV, Auditory processing, C-Topp,TOVA, VMI, Language Processing test, and WJ=III, NEPSY,Process Assessment of the Learner,and the Illinois Test of Paralinguistics. She was supervised by Dr. Edward Peck III PhD. The public school did a brief one hour assessment(WJIII)and determined there were no learning disabilities. They have disregarded the assessment results of all of these tests listed. My son does have a speech IEP, so we have been able to make some accomodations using this IEP.I hope this answers your first question. The approach that was recommended to us is the Orton- Gillingham Approach and my son has been tutored 3x a week for the past year and a half. He has responded well ,although he is a slow reader and is having a lot of trouble sequencing in math. Is this a valid approach? What do you consider to be a solid approach for Dyslexia? I have read Dr. Sally Shaywitz's text Overcoming Dyslexia- she believes that the brain can actually be altered in one year by employing these research based educational interventions. If this is true than why aren't our schools doing this, under IDEA arent they supposed to provide a free and APPROPRIATE education? It is as if we had the cure for cancer but chose not to apply it. Well, I apologize for asking so many questions but no one seems to have the answers and the Dyslexia word is not in the public's school vocabulary, What would George Orwell say? Professor Lloyd, My son was diagnosed with dyslexia by Carolyn Myers MEd an educational consultant in Richmond. She revied multiple tests-WISC-IV, Auditory processing, C-Topp,TOVA, VMI, Language Processing test, and WJ=III, NEPSY,Process Assessment of the Learner,and the Illinois Test of Paralinguistics. She was supervised by Dr. Edward Peck III PhD. The public school did a brief one hour assessment(WJIII)and determined there were no learning disabilities. They have disregarded the assessment results of all of these tests listed. My son does have a speech IEP, so we have been able to make some accomodations using this IEP.I hope this answers your first question. The approach that was recommended to us is the Orton- Gillingham Approach and my son has been tutored 3x a week for the past year and a half. He has responded well ,although he is a slow reader and is having a lot of trouble sequencing in math. Is this a valid approach? What do you consider to be a solid approach for Dyslexia? I have read Dr. Sally Shaywitz’s text Overcoming Dyslexia- she believes that the brain can actually be altered in one year by employing these research based educational interventions. If this is true than why aren’t our schools doing this, under IDEA arent they supposed to provide a free and APPROPRIATE education? It is as if we had the cure for cancer but chose not to apply it. Well, I apologize for asking so many questions but no one seems to have the answers and the Dyslexia word is not in the public’s school vocabulary, What would George Orwell say?

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