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Tutoring for Struggling Readers and Dyslexic Students
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SOLD A STORY
-Emily Hanford
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Sold a Story: How Teaching Kids to Read Went So Wrong
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There's an idea about how children learn to read that's held sway in schools for more than a generation — even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read.
In this podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work.
It's an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn't true and are now reckoning with the consequences — children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended.
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SeeHearSpeak Podcast
Interesting conversations with people who care about reading, language, and speech in the developing child
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Episode 2:
December 7, 2018
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Learn about the neurodiversity view of learning disabilities like dyslexia, considerations for label stigma in the context of early identification of reading deficits, and how to apply principles of Universal Design for Learning in intervention.
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with Gabrielle Rappolt-Schlichtmann & Alyssa Boucher
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