On the morning drive show for Richmond (VA, US) radio station WRVA, listeners were saddled with the burden of listening to me miss chances to restate the “Not Lazy and Dumb” message. Thanks to Jimmy Barrett, the morning host for WRVA, and his staff, I was invited to comment on whether dyslexia was a “fig leaf” for “stupid” in an interview about Professor Julian Elliott’s recent comments pushing that message.
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When confronted with Don A. Blackerby, whose Web site says he’s “recognized as the foremost Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) authority on Learning Disabilities, including Attention Deficit Disorder”; Shannon Sumrall of Advanced Behavioral Consultants who wrote “Neuro-Linguistic Programming and Education“; and Gordon Dryden and Jeannette Vos, who have a book called The Learning Revolution that incorporates NLP to fix just about anything, it is a pleasure to know that there are senisble folks like Steven Novella in the neighborhood. Dr. Novella, who’s an academic neurologist at Yale and a principal element in the New England Skeptics Society, published a sensible commentary on NLP that I strongly encourage readers to review. He goes well beyond debunking the woo (did I spell that correctly, Liz?) and discusses why NLP persists and what it will take to make the world safe from such nonsense.
This is not an April Fools’ Day post.
Sphere: Related ContentOver on EBD Blog, I posted an entry about sleep disorders’ effects on children’s cognitive performance. There are some pretty whopping-big, deleterious effects worth noting.
Eric Bjerstedt is a tutor for PrepMe, which is a relatively new college-entry test-preparation company that does more than many of its competitors. In a blog on the PrepMe site, Mr. Bjerstedt promises to disclose valuable tips for overcoming his own disabilities.
I’m a third-year linguistics concentrator at the University of Chicago. I was diagnosed with ADD and Tourette Syndrome at the age of eight. Over time, I have learned to deal with these disabilities without medication and want to share my thoughts so that others may benefit as well.
I recently had an article published in ADDitude Magazine entitled “When ADD Meets the SAT” and over the course of the next few weeks, I will be sharing my tips.
Link to the PrepMe blog where one can follow along as Mr. Bjerstedt explains his tips or to the first entry from which I’ve quoted here.
Sphere: Related ContentOver on I Speak of Dreams, Liz Ditz has a post regarding the untrustworthiness of a Web site on ADHD. Liz refers to a post on Drumsnwhistles that took the Attention Deficit Disorder blog to task for making false statements about research and for pushing remedies of ADHD that have virtually no evidenciary bases. I’m glad to see that folks on the Internet are gazing with a sensibly skeptical eye on some of these merchandizing schemes. Hoooray! There’s entirely too much bologna on the Web, so let’s root it out of the garden and flush it into the compost heap (teehee–making mush with metaphors).
Link to Liz’s post about the site. Here’s a link to the post on Drumsnwhistles to which Liz referred.
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Hill Center recognized
The Hill Center, a North Carolina (US) program for students with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders that predicates its efforts on the Orton-Gillingham model, has gotten positive press in a story headlined “Reading program produces: The pilot effort has helped Durham elementary schoolers become proficient” by Samiha Khanna of the Raleigh (NC, US) News and Observer. Ms. Khanna’s story describes how the Hill Center’s efforts have aided students who attend the center as well as those in local schools.
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