Hey Robin:
 
Thanks for the reference. However, my post stated that I wanted to see an article published in a respected journal that showed that teaching phonics was useful to dyslexics. The website is for a lab that starts with the premise that phonetic decoding is necessary for proper reading. and then lists statements and some suggest that. However, the website does not site a single article in a respected journal, nor does it provide an abstract to any article that shows that phonics is a good tool. 
 
In fact, the claim that phonic decoding is necessary for proper reading is totally absurd if you consider that there are many fluent readers who are deaf from birth. If you consider deafness the ultimate form of dyslexia, you will agree that it is al least possible to learn to read properly without the aids of phonics. 
 
Now, when I say I want to see an article in a respected journal, I mean a respected journal that has a 20% to 30% acceptance rate that is considered a leading journal in the field, such as reading research quarterly, the journal of ABE, Harvard Ed Review, TESOL Quarterly, etc. The article should show that phonics is the way to teach dyslexics proper reading. 
If this was the case, such article should be easy to find, and the phonics pushers in these lists should be able to readily refer to them, since, I am sure, they must have read them. 
 
In lieu of an article, I will accept a reference from a text in physiology, speech pathology, that is considered a leading text in the field and is regularly used in graduate education programs. Truespell, Hooked on phonics and the one tha annita landoll push are not considered true research pieces.
 
Andres
 
 
 
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Andres-- Below is the address of a site --from Haskins Laboratories at Yale--with a very complete research inventory of all the skills needed for good reading.  The focus of the projects at Haskins has been on preventing reading difficulty-- including heading off the effects of dyslexia---by using the most scientifically sound approaches to reading instruction.  You will see that knowledge of the alphabetic principle, automaticity in connecting sound to symbol and a number of other skills that are generally lumped under the rubric of "phonics"  are critical to efficient and effective reading.   It is these skills that dyslexics have difficulty developing, but must have to be effective readers.   

http://www.sedl.org/reading/framework/research.html


Robin Lovrien Schwarz



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There ain't one single piece of scientific evidence that says that phonics helps dyslexics. In fact scientific research suggests otherwise. If anyone can show me one single research article published in a respected journal that validates the use of phonics to teach dyslexics, I will shave my head. 
 
Andres

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You can help your students improve their reading skills as they are able to make sense of the English language. You can teach by using simple sound spellings for any words your students need to be able to read. That way they learn to decode the various vowel and consonant sounds in our language. My sped students enjoy learning how to find the sound spelling, as well as how to get from the sound spelling to the written spelling. Applied phonics.

Anita learntoreadnow

Lucille Cuttler wrote:

>  Have

> you considered consulting with the International Dyslexia Association for

> guidance in choosing materials and possibly a well-trained teacher?  

> There are many programs available beyond HOP to help reinforce the teaching of a

> well prepared teacher.   Lucille Cuttler

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>   1715] Research Validated Reading Instruction- Hooked on

>   Phonics?

>   The Special Education Teachers

>   within the Rhode Island Department of Corrections have been using a series of

>   research validated materials and techniques to work to enhance the reading

>   achievement of students with special needs. 

>    

>   I have been approached by staff

>   requesting we add the "Hooked on Phonics" program to our

>   inventory.

>    

>   Is there research out there to

>   support the utilization of the "Hooked on Phonics" program as an appropriate

>   instructional program to enhance reading skills for students with special

>   needs?  Do any of you use it?  What are the

>   results?

>    

>   Thank you.

>   Ralph Orleck

>   Special Education Director /

>   Principal

>   Rhode Island Department of

>   Corrections

>   Education Unit

>   15 Fleming Road ,

>     Bernadette

>   Building

>   Cranston ,

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>   462-2507

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