I’ve found that it’s rather impossible to discuss this subject with people who have been told by “experts” that they or their children have so called “Dyslexia”.
So called “Dyslexia” happens as a result of being TAUGHT reading through the Whole Language scheme. Historically, no records of “Dyslexia” exist anywhere before the mid 1930’s. Why? Because true Phonics was widely used before then. But when the Whole Language scheme, or
Look-Say method became wide used all over America, especially after 1950; and it so obviously failed to teach reading, indeed, rather created an obvious dysfunction in how letters are decoded..then the Pedagogical “experts” invented a new “illness” to blame, namely “Dyslexia”.
Eva, please understand that Blumenfeld is NOT saying that a child with a reading disability does NOT have that reading disability.
He IS saying that the cause is NOT a made up illness called “Dyslexia”. He IS saying that this reading disability can be REVERSED through teaching true Phonics.
Blumenfeld is not the only person who is saying this. There are many others. Do your own research. Read Blumenfeld’s books.. but there are others who have been saying the same thing for many years.
The Educational Establishment have their goals. Those goals do not include teaching children how to read, write or do arithmatic..rather, these goals include creating a completely compliant child, without the ability to think critically, who will gladly join others in continually voting for, and supporting Socialism.
No, it cannot. There is a real disconnect between the letters and the sounds. The kids can learn to break down words into syllables and sight read the syllables, but they cannot seem to understand that each letter represents a sound, just like the kids with dyscalculia do not understand that a numeral represents a number.
The kids with dyscalculia must touch every single object as they count them because counting doesn’t compute in their brain as a number of objects.
The only way that kids with dyslexia learn to read is through repetition, making them read, until the sight reading clicks. My husband went to so many summer reading programs that taught phonics and nothing worked, until his parents sent him to a boarding school that sent him to study hall every single night for punishment. It was so boring that he actually read his literature assignments and learned to like reading, though his reading was still very slow. Phonics never helped and this was before learning disabilities and dyslexia were a fad.