This is fabulous.  Have I missed a posting about where one can get  
these?  Cost?

Andrea
On Jan 12, 2007, at 3:53 PM, Allen, Loralyn wrote:


> Our program bought several whisperphones for our students.  Our ESL  

> teacher uses them when she wants students to read aloud to themselves.  

>  They can only hear themselves, so it's less distracting for everyone  

> and they are able to hear their own pronunciations.  I also use them  

> in our GED class to mask the background noise when the students are  

> doing timed readings aloud with a partner.  Some students dislike them  

> because they are self-conscious wearing them....not the most  

> attractive piece of head gear... but I think they are helpful.

>

> Lora Allen

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> From: learningdisabilities-bounces at nifl.gov on behalf of Bonnita  

> Solberg

> Sent: Thu 1/11/2007 8:34 PM

> To: The Learning Disabilities Discussion List

> Subject: [LearningDisabilities 854] Re: New Dyslexia Theory Blames  

> 'Noise'

>

>

> I was also thinking to experiment with students learning English as a  

> Second Language, to ascertain if they could hear what they are saying  

> better in this way.  May give it a try.  Bonnita

>

> Andrea Wilder <andreawilder at comcast.net> wrote:

>

> 	Well, if this isn't a clever idea. Anybody else tried this??

> 	

> 	Andrea

> 	

> 	On Jan 11, 2007, at 10:23 AM, Grace Temple wrote:

> 	

> 	>

> 	>

> 	>> I also have often thought of dislexia this way.  From my own

> 	>> experience with my child who struggled with dislexia, I found that

> 	>> when teaching him phonics and phonemic awareness we were able to

> 	>> achieve a greater amount of sucess when we used a 'talk back'.  It  

> is

> 	>> an old method used in special ed.  It's a half tube bent to go from

> 	>> the mouth to the ear.  When the student speaks or makes the letter

> 	>> sound, it is immediately sent round the tube to their own ear.  I

> 	>> have seen great progress with this.   I guess I just never tied it  

> to

> 	>> deslexia.  I just thought that my inattentive resistive child  

> needed

> 	>> something to keep him from being distracted.    It certainly  

> deserves

> 	>> further study.

> 	>>

> 	>> Grace Temple, Executive Director

> 	>> Sanilac Literacy Council

> 	>> templege at hotmail.com

> 	>>

> 	>> Hi KC and Andrea,

> 	>>

> 	>> I think this is so interesting and relevant as it came out just

> 	>> shortly after we had some discussion about research priorities.   

> This

> 	>> certainly takes a real "hot topic" in the field and narrows it down

> 	>> to the least common denominators.  The results of scholarly  

> research

> 	>> affect practice.  There were some interesting suggestions in the

> 	>> article that related to how it could affect instruction.  Even  

> though

> 	>> most research is done with children and has to be adapted for our

> 	>> adult population, it is still noteworthy.

> 	>>

> 	>> What do others think?

> 	>>

> 	>> Thanks,

> 	>>

> 	>> Rochelle

> 	>>

> 	>>

> 	>> Rochelle Kenyon

> 	>> Moderator, LINCS Learning Disabilities Discussion List

> 	>> Center for Literacy Studies at the University of Tennessee

> 	>> RKenyon721 at aol.com

> 	>>

> 	>> To post a message:

> 	>> Learningdisabilities at nifl.gov

> 	>>

> 	>>

> 	>>

> 	>>

> 	>> Rochelle--thanks for the calibre of this!  I rely on you to give us

> 	>> the

> 	>> best, fast, this is worth looking  into.

> 	>>

> 	>> Thanks!

> 	>>

> 	>> Andrea

> 	>>

> 	>>

> 	>>

> 	>> Hi Rochelle - I thought it was a fascinating premise (I saw is in

> 	>> Schwab Learning) and it confirmed some of my informal observations

> 	>> of  how dyslexic people approach reading.  However, I suspect that

> 	>> there may be room for both schools of thought (and probably more!)

> 	>> and what is causal for one dyslexic reader may not be true of all  

> of

> 	>> them.

> 	>>

> 	>>  KC Andrew

> 	>> Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges

> 	>> Adult Basic Education - Professional Development Services

> 	>> 360/485-2338

> 	>> kandrew at sbctc.ctc.edu

> 	>>

> 	>>

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