AD/HD Awareness Week: Addressing Myths, Diagnoses, and Treatments
Hi,
Did you know that about one-third of people with learning disabilities (LD) also have AD/HD? While these two disorders are not the same thing, they do share some similarities…and they both can interfere with learning and behavior.
If you, your child, or your student struggle with learning and/or attention issues, especially if certain “problem situations” occur repeatedly, we invite you to learn more! The sooner you understand what’s going on, the sooner you can begin to address the concerns.
Our AD/HD section on LD.org is filled with detailed information, expert strategies, and handy tips. Here are a few highlights:
• Attention and Learning Problems: Which Came First?
• How AD/HD Affects Learning
• Myths and Misconceptions about AD/HD: Science over Cynicism
• Managing the Problem Situations of LD and AD/HD: Partnering with Your Child's Doctor
• Tips for Parenting a Child with AD/HDCarter Norman's story,
A Father and Educator’s Story: AD/HD Myths, Diagnoses, and Treatments, is a refreshingly honest account of his own experience as a parent and an educator. He describes his resistance to other teachers' suggestions that his son might have AD/HD due to assumptions, fears, and common myths about the disorder. He also explains the positive results both he and his son have experienced once they received accurate diagnoses and treatments.
Do any of our group members have stories to share about ADHD?
Thanks,
Rochelle Kenyon, SME
Disabilities in Adult Education group
Comments
Literacy and social disadvantage
The disadvantaged, dyslexic, disabled, indigenous and foreigners must work harder than everybody else to learn to read. (dislexic, indigenus, foriners, lern) Those who fail remain disadvantaged.
Only a few spellings make all the rest difficult for them. Could we change the unnecessarily difficult spellings so that none had more than two connections to speech?
There are many words alredy which have two or more spellings; we could add ‘sensibl’ spellings to spellcheckers.
Then everybody would find it esier to spell. http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/spelling.htm#word Can you spell? The best of us may not be perfect.
2011, Yule, Valerie 'Recent developments which affect spelling. On the possibility of removing the unnecessary difficulties in English spelling, while leaving the basic appearance of English print intact.' English Today, 107, vol 27, No 3. Sept 2011, pp 62-67 http://journals.cambridge.org/repo_A839oLF6
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~ozideas/spelling.htm
1986. The design of spelling to meet needs & abilities. Harvard Educational Review. 56.3. 278 - 297. http://www.hepg.org/her/abstract/489
http://www.ozreadandspell.com.au/ Half hour video of what it helps to know to read and spell. Failing learners check it out.
It would mean changing only 3% of letters in words in ordinary text, and omitting 6% as surplus because they do not help with meaning or pronunciation, apart from 35 irregular common words are best lernd as 'sight words' at first.
. all almost always among as come some could should would half know of off one only once other pull push put they their two as was what want who why, and word-endings -ion/-tion/-sion.
Being able to recognise these enables learners to read far wider earlier than if kept to the order of learning phonics spelling patterns, because they make up 12% of everyday reading.
This would cut the rules of English spelling to one page, as in other alphabetic languages.
The teaching of reading and spelling would take half the time.
The RULES OF ENGLISH SPELLING ON ONE PAGE
For use, testing, research & development
All consonant patterns hav only one possible pronunciation exept for c as in circus, g as in garage, s as in suns, y as in my yabby, th as in this and that, ch as in child, chemist & charade, and z as in zoo vision
Vowel spelling patterns: a as in baby banana, e as in remediate, aa bazaar
i as in finding fried fish, o as in Apollo, u as in unduly rude.
ar as in car, air as in fair, au as in taut, or as in fort,
er as in her/very, ur as in perturb (shows syllable stress), ir as in bird
ou as in round, oi as in boil, oo as in book or boot, uu also possibl as in buuk
Vowels in final place as in pity baker saw cow boy tabu/too
banana, me/bee/theme alibi go menu
Other spellings for long vowels pronounced as in A E I O U
make maids play, beat meet Mimi, night, boat note, new cue
For learners, accents on long vowels, as in màt mèt mìt mòt mùt, aid pronunciation,and link wurd families as in national/nàtion, competition/compèting, finish/fìnal, composition/compòsing, deduct/dedùcing.
Grammatical spellings -s/es for plurals, tenses, posessives. d/ed for participles. No changes of wurd endings for plural nouns. -ss a variant spelling for singular nouns
Doubled consonants show short vowels or stressed syllables or both, as in carrot berry stirrup horrid curry umbrella, committee, princess, ck= doubled k.
Obscure schwa vowels in casual speech are spelled as in formal speech, and are not followed by doubled consonants, e.g. comittee, acommodate. Normal articulation naturally slurs spellings such as special, picture and question.
Silent e lengthens the preceding vowel, as in make mete mite mote mute. So ence or –ance, etc depend upon short or long preceding vowel, as in dependant silence. Other suffixes as in –abl = able to.
No redundant letters.( Surplus letters at present show neither meaning or pronunciation.) Exampls - autum, gardian, gage, mischivus. Present readers can start reform here.
35 very common irregular spellings are kept, because they make up to 12% of every-day print. all almost always among come some could should would four half know of off one only once other full/ful pull push put their they two as was what want who why, and international wurd endings -ion/-tion/-sion/zion
Not changed: Very exotic spellings, mostly French, such as bourgeois, bouquet, and personal and place names. These can be written in italics or underlined.
Result - Some vairiant spellings ar posibl for some wurds but within predictabl limits.
Most wurds hav singl spellings.
valerie yule vyule@labyrinth
Beginners Level 1 and Dictionry Gide – one-to-one sound-simbol correspondence.
Level 2 Spelling in the future
Level 3 Spelling for Reading Present Spelling without Traps – adds vairiant spellings for 7 vowels & 3 consonants.
Contrast present English spelling - . A Stanford computer given 203 of its rules could spell with only 50% accuracy (Hanna & Hanna)