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LD opinion survey: good news, bad news

Published on 8 October 2010 in Comments, Foundation, History, News, Not LD, Policy, Professional development and The press. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , .

For the fourth time, the Roper Public Affairs &’ Corporate Communications group has reported a survey of US opinion about Learning Disabilities to the Tremaine Foundation. Although the report is entitled “Measuring Progress in Public & Parental Understanding of Learning Disabilities,” it also includes data about the views of the general public, teachers, and school administrators. It’s worth reading the entire document, but here are a few notes to whet the appetite.
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About on Irlen

Published on 10 July 2009 in Dyslexia, Not LD, Research, The press, Treatment and Uncategorized. 2 Comments Tags: , , , , .

Whoever writes the section of About on Learning Disabilities provides support for Irlen Syndrome. Although there are two sentences expressing reservation and it doesn’t flatly commend the idea, there are 100s of words describing it and making fact-like statements such as “It often runs in families and typically goes mis-diagnosed as a learning disability or dyslexia.”

Here are the two disclaiming statements:

  • “Research in this area, however, is quite limited.”
  • “It is important to note that Irlen syndrome and visual treatments are unproven and not recognized by the major academic Pediatric Organizations in the US(AAP, AOA, and AAO.)”

    • At least there are those two sentence. Still, why report all the other stuff uncritically? But, perhaps I’m misreading the entry or over-reacting. I invite readers to check it (link to the entry) and then vote in this poll.

    How favorably does the About entry on Irlen Syndrome treat the topic

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    Future content

    Published on 2 January 2009 in Administrivia and News. 0 Comments Tags: .

    I’ll be adding some new pages to LD Blog over the next couple of weeks. They’ll appear under the section called “special content” in the header and each will include multi-media content as well as a text.

    Although I have selected the topics for the first few, I’d like to determine the topics about which readers would like to see new content. Do you want to have coverage of causes? Treatments? What? I’ve created a poll where readers can vote for topics to be covered. Please vote for up to three different topics.
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    Poll 2 on RtI and LD

    Published on 5 August 2008 in Administration, Assessment, Dyslexia, News, Policy and Treatment. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , .

    Here’s an announcement of the second in the series of polls to assess readers’ perspectives on response to intervention or response to instruction (RtI) and Learning Disabilities. RtI (which was expressly permitted in the US Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), is commonly considered to have multiple tiers of intensity with careful monitoring of students’ progress informing decisions about providing increasingly more intensive services. The mechanisms of RtI are the focus of this poll. Although they are being adopted broadly, the only RtI models that have been studied closely are in early literacy, so I’m limiting this discussion to those efforts.
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    Poll 1 on RtI and LD

    Published on 2 July 2008 in Administration, Dyslexia, Policy and Treatment. 3 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , , .

    With this post, I’m beginning a series of polls to assess readers’ perspectives on response to intervention or response to instruction (RtI) and Learning Disabilities. As most people concerned with LD know, RtI was expressly permitted in the most recent set of regulations under the US law, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act. Although most special educators agree at least in part with RtI, one of the most controversial issues is whether implementing RtI will reduce the incidence of LD. That’s the topic of this poll.

    Do you expect that providing tier-one and tier-two reading instruction according to an RTI model during primary and elementary grades will reduce the incidence of Learning Disabilities (dyslexia)?

    • No (39%, 14 Votes)
    • Yes, a little (e.g., from ~5% to ~4%) (33%, 12 Votes)
    • Yes, some (e.g., from ~5% to ~2-3%) (22%, 8 Votes)
    • Yes, lots (e.g., from ~5% to ~1%) (6%, 2 Votes)

    Total Voters: 36

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    By the way, the Division for Learning Disabilities published a good booklet providing basic background about RtI. It is written in practitioner-friendly language and can be read in only a few minutes. Visit the products section of TeachingLD.org to learn more about it. (Yes, I contributed to the booklet, but I don’t make any royalties from it.)

    By the way (2), over on Teach Effectively there are a set of slides from presentations about RTI. These presentations were delivered by prominent special educators at the 2007 meeting of the Council for Exceptional Children.

    Please note that this poll should not be consider scientific evidence. Do not construe the results of any of these polls as representative of systematic polls conducted by reputable polling organizations. These results simply reflect the opinion of the people who responded to the question. The sample of people who respond is selective, not randomly drawn from a defined population.

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    Bogus Bowl II

    Published on 13 February 2008 in Comments and News. 0 Comments Tags: , , .

    In case readers of LD Blog missed it, I posted a new version of the Bogus Bowl over at Teach Effectively. This one is about the excuses that people use for not teaching students. As of this writing, there’s a close contest between the excuse of not liking helpful teaching methods and the rationalization that students’ home lives trump teaching. If you haven’t already done so, please jump over there and vote.

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