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The Dyslexia 'Myth' -Dispatches, TV Channel 4, 8.9.05.

I suppose TV has to be provocative....but Prof. Julian Elliot claiming that dyslexia does not exist could be very damaging; especially when the rest of the programme showed some of the genetic and neurological evidence that it does exist, and is common! Elliot ignored this.

The programme was very unbalanced, focussing only on old research that showed that many dyslexics have problems with sorting out the sounds of letters, phonics, without asking why they have those difficulties. They featured a phonics' teaching system that requires 28 expensive hours of 1:1 teaching!

They mistakenly ruled out visual causes, ignoring over 500 scientific publications in the last 10 years that show the importance of visual factors in dyslexia, together with their contribution to the phonological problems that the programme featured.

Worse they ignored the dramatic reading progress that many children can achieve simply by improving their visual reading skills using cheap simple means such as coloured filters, vergence exercises or temporary occlusion of one eye.