SealLullaby
Sorry about this dispute, but it is key to gaining the provision of the best approach to the teaching of reading in the UK. Which needs to be based on Scientific research, and not the whims of a particular teaching programs marketing hype.
Unfortunately maizieD is back to her old tricks, she has no peer reviewed research to support any of her claims, and she refuses to discuss any issues expect that phonics is the only way to teach reading. If she had she could add them to the CiteULIke research paper database, and share her library of research paper collection with other researchers.
If maizieD were to produce her peer reviewed research papers and links to the various internationally recognised journals then may be we could have a sensible discussion.
I am not a self proclaimed dyslexic, I have a diagnosis of Dyslexia, and I also have a clinical diagnosis of Auditory Processing Disorder which is the cause of my dyslexic symptom.
I use the term marketing hype as it sounds less emotional than disability discrimination which is what maizieD are promoting, but not recognising and openly discussing the needs of these who have various cognitive differences which can prevent them from using Phonics.
The current research of the last decade has been discussing the Lexical and Sublexical cognitive processes required to perform the task of reading, and phonics only addressed the sublexical process, and many are not able to access this process and can only access the lexical process, so maizieD is advocating a teaching approach that ignores the needs of those who can only access the lexical processes. The other problem is that her approach does not encourage children to use their lexical skills in fact it positively discourages them.
The whole basis of the maizieD approach is that all children are clones of each other and are all able to use phonics, which is a complete marketing myth, and the opposing marketing myth is the the whole Word approach is the only way to reach reading. The last decade of research has shown that children need be educated to use both cognitive processes to become effective readers. Which means that all teachers of reading need to be trained to understand and have access to both methods of teaching, so that they can begin to understand the cognitive learning needs of each child in their classes and be able to adapt their teaching methods to best suite each childs learning needs and provide the best education for the children in their classrooms.