RSS Feed
Twitter
Facebook
November 2nd, 2009
3554 Views
Dispatches exposes the myths and misconceptions that surround a condition said to affect 10 per cent of the population. The Dyslexia Myth argues that the common understanding of dyslexia is not only false but makes it more difficult to provide the reading help that hundreds of thousands of children desperately need.
Drawing on years of intensive academic research on both sides of the Atlantic, Dispatches challenges the existence of dyslexia as a separate condition; but in doing so, reveals the scale and pain of true reading disability.
The programme examines the chasm between evidence and educational practice and shows that, after hundreds of millions of pounds of investment in the teaching of reading, the number of children encountering serious problems has hardly changed.
Posted in 
I smell bullshit. I think that there is something more complex going on with the phenomenon called dyslexia. My father was dyslexic, and I inherited a little of it, though I have never had problems with reading or writing, I seem to live in those subtle this sounds hidden within words. But I have definitely experienced the flipping and disordering of words. I think dyslexia was mis-characterized as a visual problem in this documentary, whereas it appears to me to be a cognitive problem.
I think that the real problem here is that the state has a monopoly or megalopoly on the education system, which results is the students and their families having little recourse when educational programs fail.
If the parents were hiring private educators, and found that their children were not learning, they would simply be able to fire the teachers, and hire another one. The end result would be that the “best” ways of teaching would rise to prominence as a matter of resource efficiency.
Now, here we have a failed education program provided by the state, being challenged by a propaganda program also being generated by the state. Now, you don’t smell something fishy there?