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As regular readers (both of you!) know, one of the things that concerns me is the misrepresentation of Learning Disabilities. I get at least mildly irritated when people perpetuate misinformation about Learning Disabilities because (a) people new to Learning Disabilities are likely to accept the ideas as accurate and, thus, perpetuate them even longer; (b) the misrepresentations compete with and often muscle evidentiarily and reasonedly sound ideas out of the way, thus doing a dis-service to those who need help; and (c) popularization of falacious ideas about Learning Disabilities increases the general level of sketpticism about Learning Disabilities, cheapens the concept, makes it harder for those of us who are seeking demonstrable progress in understanding Learning Disabilities and helping those who must contend with them day in and day out. (Please fell free to suggest other reasons for concern.)

In a post entitled “Friday Dyslexia Woo,” Liz Ditz exposes some more of the bologna that passes as fresh steak on the Internet. Liz has a great track record at catching a whiff of the smoke from the sizzle and telling whether there’s steak under it. Here her critique is simple and direct: “No evidence, just claims and testimonials.” Read it, please.