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OK, don't know too much about it, don't mean to open another can of worms! But we seem to have difficulty even discerning the best ways to teach normal kids to
by iguy 9y ago
OK, don't know too much about it, don't mean to open another can of worms!
But we seem to have difficulty even discerning the best ways to teach normal kids to read. Hence my skepticism that our interventions for something specific could be so well-understood that starting the intervention when we had the genetic test (rather than waiting for the classroom) would matter.
- Robin_Message 9y agoThat is a very fair point. Teaching in the UK at least seems quite faddish. At the moment, pre-teen children are taught extensive vocabulary to talk about how English is constructed. They are taught terms like "split diagraph", which sound liguistic, but aren't terms actually used by linguists!
- iguy 9y agoRight! And don't they try to teach them to read at 4, while the Finns wait until 7, or something? The state of knowledge about what works best seems pretty poor.