10-second review: “Can dyslexia be cured? In a word, no. Dyslexia is a lifelong condition that affects people into old age. However, that does not mean that instruction cannot remediate some of the difficulties people with dyslexia have with written language.”
Source: RF Hudson, et al. Reading Teacher(March 2007), 510. A publication of the International Reading Association (IRA).
Comment: I don’t know enough to respond to this statement. There have been several attempts to overemphasize phonics as a way of improving the ability to decode words. On the other hand, some people in the field of reading say that the overemphasis on phonics leads to word calling, not comprehension. I’m wondering if the new-found interest in fluency would have an effect on the dyslexics’ comprehension.
And I always have wondered whether the directed reading assignment (build background on the topic; pre-teach unfamiliar vocabulary in the passage; setting purpose for reading; and applying what has been learned from the reading) has really been tried. RayS.
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