[AAACE-NLA] What kind of learning challenge is it?
Gail Spangenberg
gspangenberg at caalusa.org
Mon Oct 4 15:58:10 EDT 2004
Colleagues,
Seeing this posting prompts me to ask a question about a local
challenge I have. An employee of another organization where I have
some management responsibility is in her late 30s, uncommonly wise
and street smart besides, hard working, loyal, an all-round decent,
good woman, an ideal colleague in nearly every way.
She has a language problem that we would like to help her fix, to
whatever extent may be possible, and I want to help get her into a
NYC-program that is suited to her need. She is willing to enroll in
a class, if located convenient to her work or to where she lives, and
we are willing to pay for it.
Here is her problem, and I'm wondering if parts of the problem would
be considered "dyslexia," or how best to diagnose the problem and
find the right placement. She has trouble telling last names from
first names, and often mixes them up in writing. She can't compose a
grammatically correct letter (spelling, capital letters, grammar) but
can spot such "likely errors" in text written by someone else. She
speaks using such words as don't when she should use doesn't, or
ain't, etc. I once told her that as a way to help her correct some
errors I would tell her whenever I heard her speaking incorrectly
(but that doesn't work -- wanting to change, which her grown daughter
and boyfriend urge upon her, is not enough to do it.)
I would welcome any advice you can give. She is, as I say, a
wonderful, valued employee, and we want to help her, not just to
improve her job performance but to lift her stature in dealing with
the paying upscale parents whose children make up a significant
portion of our (ballet) school attendance.
Thanks so much.
Gail Spangenberg
>She wrote a great book all about Dyslexia which
>discusses her research.
>
>
>
>--- Robin DeSilva <rds0523 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how I can obtain a copy of Ms.
>> Shawitz' research on the below-referenced topic?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Robin L. DeSilva
>> Literacy/Education Coordinator
>> New Community Corporation
>> Newark, NJ 07103
>> (973) 639-5619
>>
>> "Guerriere, Carl" <carl.guerriere at po.state.ct.us>
>> wrote:
>> I know that Sally Shawitz has at least done research
>> with adult learners with dyslexia or reading
>> difficulties. She used adult learners from a
>> program I was affiliated with in Connecticut to
>> demonstrate through MRIs that they used different
>> parts of their brains when reading compared with
>> most individuals.
>>
>>
>> Carl Guerriere
>> Executive Director/Literacy Advocate
>> Greater Hartford Literacy Council
>> One Union Place (New Street Address!)
>> Hartford, CT 06103
>> (860) 522-7323 (522-READ)
>> www.greaterhartfordreads.org
>> Fax: (860) 722-2486
>> Reading. It takes you places.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: aaace-nla-bounces at lists.literacytent.org
>> [mailto:aaace-nla-bounces at lists.literacytent.org]On
>> Behalf Of Brown, Charlene
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 4:01 PM
>> To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by
>> AAACE
>> Subject: RE: [AAACE-NLA] research board members
>> [faked-from]
>>
>>
>>
>> Does anyone know if any of the nominees have adult
>> basic education experience?
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Daphne Greenberg
>> [mailto:epedgg at panther.gsu.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2004 11:03 AM
>> To: National Literacy Advocacy List sponsored by
>> AAACE
>> Subject: [AAACE-NLA] research board members
>> [faked-from]
>>
>> This just came across my desk:
>>
>> Senate Panel Approves Research Board Members
>>
>> The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
>> Committee last week
>> approved 11 members to serve on a long-awaited
>> advisory board on educational
>> research. The nominations are expected to face easy
>> confirmation in the full
>> Senate. The new National Board for Education
>> Sciences was created two years
>> ago. President Bush announced his first 13 nominees
>> to the board nine months
> > ago. The 11 approved by the Senate panel last week
>> are: Jonathan Baron, the
>> executive director of the Coalition for
>> Evidence-Based Research; Elizabeth
>> Ann Bryan, a former adviser to Secretary of
>> Education Rod Paige; James R.
>> Davis, the superintendent of the Hattiesburg, Miss.,
>> public schools; F.
>> Philip Handy, the chairman of the Florida state
>> board of education; Eric A.
>> Hanushek, a Stanford University professor; and
>> Caroline M. Hoxby, a Harvard
>> University professor. Also approved were: Roberto
>> Ibarra Lopez, the head of
>> a Houston charter school; Richard J. Milgram, a
>> Stanford professor; Sally E.
>> Shaywitz, a Yale University professor; Joseph K.
>> Torgesen, a Florida State
>> University professor; and Herbert J. Walberg, a
>> professor emeritus at the
>> University of Chicago. Two nominees were previously
>> approved by the
>> committee, and the presidenthas announced his
>> choices for the remaining two
>> seats on the board: Craig T. Ramey, a co-director of
>> the Georgetown
>> University Center on Health and Education, and
>> Carole D Amico, a former
>> assistant secretary for vocational and adult
>> education.
>>
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Gail Spangenberg
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