Real Public Safety: Remediate Dyslexia

Scott Henson, who writes the blog Grits for Breakfast, says the #1 public safety / crime reduction effort is eliminating dyslexia.

1. Train 10,000 new teachers to perform individual training with dyslexic children, and increase funding for early testing for dyslexia. That's the low end of an estimate for how many are needed. Dyslexics make up 10% of children who are tested but 30% of Texas inmates, and illiteracy is a key indicator increasing the likelihood of imprisonment.

As I have said previously, it is not likely to happen. As the 2006 NCTQ report revealed,  teachers-in-training are systematically mislead about  the science of reading, how to detect dyslexia, and how to  remediate it.

Please see the 2006 report from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ):

What Education Schools Aren't Teaching About Reading--and What Elementary Teachers Aren't Learning.

In this groundbreaking report, NCTQ studied a large representative sampling of ed schools to find out what future elementary teachers are--and are not--learning about reading instruction. The report, the most comprehensive of its kind, determined that education schools are ignoring the principles of good reading instruction that would prepare prospective teachers how to better teach reading.

You can download the report at the link above.

We as parents and taxpayers should be demanding much higher quality from our schools of education.

Grits for Breakfast on crime and dyslexia:


Failure to treat dyslexia increases crime.

Failed school systems generate crime

A Real Public Safety Agenda for Texas

Interview with Scott Henson

Comments

[ms_teacher]

Show me some really good links on dyslexia because I am a teacher who has never received any training in recognizing it. Thanks!