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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If people are claiming that we had to abandon phonics (and continue to do so) because some kids are truly unable to learn to read with it because they have dyslexia or other learning disorders then this is really a justification for separating kids with disabilities from mainstream classes, at least in the beginning few years while they’re learning to read. It should never have been a justification to remove phonics and replace it with bunk to ensure that now everyone will struggle with reading in the long term, not just the dyslexics. [/quote]

Nobody who knows anything about dyslexia has argued against teaching phonics to dyslexic kids. In fact, the gold standard for teaching dyslexic kids to read is a phonics program called Orton Gillingham. Parents have spent a fortune on it because the public schools weren’t teaching phonics. [/quote]

Yes, reading specialists will  be happy to explain it is notabour teaching  phonics, or a prigram, or whatever.  The parents fell for the package, in the same way people fall for essential oils.  There really is no silver bullet. OG and many other programs like it- all commercial, actually do not remediate true dyslexia. The money in these things is in the training of people, not unlike an MLM. People "spend a fortune" in the way they spend money for everything. 
And, yes, schools do, and always have, taught phonics. Stop reading  crap in articles that suggest otherwise. 
Some kids pick up on reading later, some need one on one tutoring with a slower pace, some have auditory processong issues , the list goes on. There a hundreds of ways kids become deficient in reading  ( and math, or writing...) and there's always  someone trying to make that commercial.

This is a professional who can clear it up.  https://www.teaching-reading.com [/quote]

You're having a different conversation than the rest of us.  When kids are not taught phonics, some will figure it out on their own.  And the others will become dyslexic.  If they had been taught phonics, then they wouldn't ever become dyslexic.  There are other kids who are "actually" dyslexic but those are not the kids we're talking about, the kids who were harmed by three-cueing.[/quote]

Yeah, none of that is true. None of it. And-you don't understand dyslexia or reading. [/quote]

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