The Warnock Report (1978 ) claimed that at some stage during their schooling , 20 per cent of children would have special educational needs. I feel that...
Jim Curran
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Nov 1, 2002 7:55 pm
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Hi D R I have decided it would be better to reply to your last post bit by bit, We have covered many areas of interest, and each episode becomes longer than ...
dolfrog
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Nov 1, 2002 10:01 pm
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Nature Hi D R your comment _________________ If you said to your APD child "I am going to the shop to buy some vegetables, then when I get back home I will...
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Nov 1, 2002 10:41 pm
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Nov 2, 2002 9:58 am
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Nov 2, 2002 9:58 am
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On Saturday, Nov 2, 2002, at 04:03 US/Eastern, "Your area dentists" ... This doesn't belong on "readbygrade3" - not unless we read with our teeth. If I get one...
Hi Graeme, let's forget the long e-mails for now and start from HERE! (1) How did your son aged 6 learn to read? Tell me the process that he went through to...
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Hi D R firstly these events happen to my now 14 year old son when he was 6 years old some 8 years ago. He had attended to schools, we moved at the end of his...
... If so, how and when do we discover which child needs each different method of teaching? Do we test them in some way, on or before the first day of ...
("Mrs. Brown, according to her test-scores your daughter needs Reading Method #31 - but her twin brother has to go to a different kindergarten, with a ...
mcnee
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Nov 3, 2002 8:31 am
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firstly these events happen to my now 14 year old son when he was 6 years old some 8 years ago. He had attended to schools, we moved at the end of his first...
mcnee
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Nov 3, 2002 8:32 am
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Hi ... I'm new to this forum, also a member of APDUK with Graeme. I agree entirely with what he says here. I haev worked with pupils with dyslexia and a ...
Hi ... Each child is unique, even identical twins aren't perfect clones of each other and may learn in different ways, one twin may be autistic the other may ...
Hi ... For a child with APD phonics will not work alone. If you cannot process what you are hearing accurately how can you repeat it, learn it and remember it ...
Hi Kate It is called trial and error, you try something and if it does not work you try something else. But if you are using a rigid system the is if does not ...
Hi Mona I think you may find that some children do need different air, they live their lives in oxygen tents etc, it is a result of research that these ...
I agree with both Kate and Mona: with Kate that schools cannot identify all problems of all children before they start teaching them, and then use a different...
Jennifer Chew
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Nov 3, 2002 12:06 pm
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Mona I am still learning, But my sons have been failed by what ever system the schools have been using. I have 3 sons in the education system. 14, 9, and 4, ...
Graeme - The type of problems you cite below are exceptional. It would not be considered the responsibility of the schools to diagnose these problems or to...
Jennifer Chew
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Nov 3, 2002 12:21 pm
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Graeme - I feel I must take up the cudgels on Mona's behalf. I can assure you that she is extremely well informed on the subject of the teaching of reading. ...
Jennifer Chew
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Nov 3, 2002 12:31 pm
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Hi Jenny we may be exceptional in the fact that we are aware of our Disability, but for years it has been missed by all, and not recognised. I am a member of...
Hi Jenny We are still learning about each other and what we have achieved in the past. I am still learning about all of the members of this list. And most of...
Graeme - I think you have misunderstood a good deal of what I have said - for one thing, I was certainly not ignoring APD as you seem to think I was. Before ...
Jennifer Chew
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Nov 3, 2002 2:02 pm
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Re: School leavers Date: 2 November 2002 Sir - Headmaster Michael Carolan, who believes truancy is the result of social and economic disadvantage (letter, Nov...
mcnee
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Nov 3, 2002 2:06 pm
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Graeme thinks I will find lots of APD pupils if I look. But my aim is to get rid of the harmful teaching, guessing, sight words, and deal with the vast lump...
mcnee
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Nov 3, 2002 3:04 pm
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But when some one promotes just one method of doing something and not entertain or discuss alternative methods then I see this as wall non communication. I am...
mcnee
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Nov 3, 2002 3:04 pm
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Hi ... I agree, Graeme. this "one size fits all mentality" is to blame for the state of literacy in this country and others. All kids have the same right to ...
Hi ... But it is the responsibility of the schools to identify literacy problems, their causes and the best way of remediation. That's what an IAP is for, an ...
