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On a couple of those ubiquitous self-help sites on the Web I found the same article about Learning Disabilities. Entitled “Dyslexia: Diagnosing If Your Child Has It,” the article presents an apparently heartfelt view, but the content is questionable on mutliple counts.

• It promotes the discrepancy approach to identification.
• It mixes phonemic awareness with phonics.
• It describes treatment options uncritically.
• In several places, the syntax is hard to understand (e.g., “When trying to determine whether or not your child has dyslexia or not, there are a few indicators to look for”).

Worse yet, this is one of 50 duplicate articles about Learning Disabilities on each site. Probably this is the work of a well-meaning individual, but it’s disappointing to have such treatments of important topics as readily accessible as very careful and substantive content that one can receive from sites such as those listed in the “LD Links” I list in this blog’s sidebar.

Link to the originals from Solve Your Problems and Info 4 Healthy Living.