New reading research link c

Thanks for sharing this link. It gives us all hope.
Michelle

I got to it and read it but how do I use it? How exactly were the auditory processing issues and oral language issues approached?

And how would anyone but a speech therapist or speech pathologist be able to do anything? None of this article offers anything to a classroom teacher, right?

If I were a parent, I’d want to know more. Was that an abstract? Where’s the full article or did I miss it?

It is very important for teachers to know about research. What this research is about is when a child has a problem learning how to read and it is based in a lack of phonemic awareness, after remediation using a directly taught systematic phonics program, the brain neurons that should have been working so that the child could read and weren’t, are now working and the child is reading. It is very important to know this because then the teachers and schools should be using that kind of program, recommended by NIH to teach reading to all of the children so that those that need that program will be able to be taught how to read and not mistakenly be labeled LD. With these types of programs, it would cut the sped rolls drastically. This research and ones like it are behind the “Leave No Child Behind” and revamping of IDEA legislation.

Research was done using Fastforward for phonemic awareness. Dad posted this link on the Parenting Board on March 4:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2003/february

Your shortcut answer really isn’t one. To any of the questions I asked.

No where in that abstract does it talk about a ‘directly taught systemmatic phonics program”. And what program would still be the question. The abstract doesn’t say. While it is can be helpful for teachers to know about research, that abstract was so vague that it offered this classroom teacher nothing I can use.

Another poster suggests this abstract is talking about the Fast Forward program. I’ve seen Fast Forward impact positively on some children’s reading skills but I’ve seen it do nothing for just as many children.

There’s no quick fix out there to reading issues but there are many programs that the taxpayers’ money can be spent on. Whether it’s well spent would be another question.