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Originally Posted by jillio
Here is what gets me: the line about educators being open to trying something new!  Good Lord, CS is 40 years old, it was tried, and found to be relatively inneffective when compared to other methods, and at the age of 40, can hardly be considered to be new.
Even the Clerc Center is offering workshops on Visual Phonics rather than CS. Now there is something that is new and innovative and show promise.
Cueing was not developed as a system for the family. It was developed to improve receptive skills in oral English (i.e. speech reading) for the deaf individual so that literacy rates would improve. Convenience for the parents is simply a selling point that is being used since the attempt to revive a system that is at death's door.
Quite frankly, you have done a great job answering the questions posed. |
Because I am such a terrible person..I am gonna go off topic again. Visual phonics was brought up at my work today and our reading specialists are going to attend a workshop about it to learn more about it. If it is something that we can use, then sure, why not?
Everyone can slap me for going off-topic. Yes, I am so awful!