Thursday, November 8, 2007

Educationally Challenged

Dyslexia, learning disability, learning challenge, whatever you want to call it... should not be the death nell of person's potential! Yet, today more than ever the failure of schools to provide appropriate instruction for kids with LD has devastating results. Literacy skills are critical for success today. We need to stop thinking of this as a problem with the learner, and realize that the problem exists because we are not delivering instruction at the intensity and duration that is needed. Teachers need better training to be able to effectively help these students. The key word is effectively. Today, teachers of at least elementary grades need a background in phonology and linguistics, and they need to be experts in their own language.

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