Penn Acres

this link mentions a book called Reading,Writing and Rage by Dorothy Fink. She outlines a correlation between late reading and boys who are large for their age.
grace

http://www.besthomeschooling.org/karen_pennebaker.html

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--- In [email protected], "Penn Acres" <pennacres@r...>
wrote:
> this link mentions a book called Reading,Writing and Rage by Dorothy Fink. She
outlines a correlation between late reading and boys who are large for their age.
> grace
>
> http://www.besthomeschooling.org/karen_pennebaker.html

Weird! This is such amazing synchronicity. I thought about this same article earlier
tonight and posted about it in another group just about one minute before you
posted this! :) Lillian
http://www.BestHomeschooling.org





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Wife2Vegman

--- Penn Acres <pennacres@...> wrote:
> this link mentions a book called Reading,Writing and
> Rage by Dorothy Fink. She outlines a correlation
> between late reading and boys who are large for
> their age.
> grace
>
http://www.besthomeschooling.org/karen_pennebaker.html
>


Being the mom of a very large 12yo (5'9" and 155lbs)
and "dyslexic", I read this article closely.
Interesting article, but I think some of her "logic"
and statements are flawed.

For instance, she says, "You cannot teach a dyslexic
child to read until the child is ready to learn!
Dyslexic children cannot be taught by rote like other
children! It doesn't work."

No one can teach ANY child to read before they are
ready to learn. Nor can you teach them anything else
before they are ready.

She says, "Left alone, dyslexic children learn things
their way. Home schooling is great for them, because
they can learn things the way it works for them, not
the way a teacher presents things to a classroom! "

All children would learn things much differently than
the way a teacher presents things in a classroom if
left to learn their own way, not just dyslexic
children.

She says, "Also, check to see if the child is "cross
dominant" - meaning a right handed child with a
dominant left eye or vice versa."

But according to this website:
http://www3.azwestern.edu/psy/dgershaw/lol/Handedness.html

"The main reason for handedness lies in hereditary
factors that determine which side of the brain will be
more developed and therefore dominant. ***Typically
the left side of the brain controls the left side of
the head but the right side of the body*** � indicated
by the shaded portions of the figure. [emphasis my
own]

Likewise, the right side of the brain predominantly
controls the right side of the head but the left side
of the body (light portions of figure). This is
because the nerves cross-over at the back of the
neck."

I don't think this article is particularly helpful to
unschoolers because I don't think that unschoolers
would do anything differently for a child with
dyslexia than for a child without as far as learning
on their own. I know I don't do anything differently
for my son based on the knowledge that he is dyslexic,
but I do things uniquely based on his interests and
desires, as I do for my other two children.

It might help school-at-homers, though, to relax a bit
and not try to make their dyslexic child fit into the
same mold as their other children.


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I haven't looked into this, but I assume that she's referring to a situatio=
n that's
outside the norm? I don't know, but vision is pretty complex and can preve=
nt a lot of
variables... What she's referring to might not be a matter of the left brai=
n so much as
how the person's vision system is working--but again, I'm not familiar with=
what
she's referring to.

In regard to non-dyslexic kids being able to learn before they're ready, I =
think she's
making comparisons among her own children and noticing that some can teach =

themselves certain things when requested, whereas the dyslexic one can't ne=
cessarily
do that. I wouldn't have been able to get through school, myself, if I hadn=
't been able
to teach myself things when requested--there was an awful lot I didn't feel=

particularly ready to learn :::shudder shudder::: Wow, that brought back ba=
d
memories... ;)
Lillian
http://www.BestHomeschooling.org

<<She says, "Also, check to see if the child is "cross
dominant" - meaning a right handed child with a
dominant left eye or vice versa."

But according to this website:
http://www3.azwestern.edu/psy/dgershaw/lol/Handedness.html

"The main reason for handedness lies in hereditary
factors that determine which side of the brain will be
more developed and therefore dominant. ***Typically
the left side of the brain controls the left side of
the head but the right side of the body*** — indicated
by the shaded portions of the figure. [emphasis my
own]

Likewise, the right side of the brain predominantly
controls the right side of the head but the left side
of the body (light portions of figure). This is
because the nerves cross-over at the back of the
neck.">>








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