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Closing the gap: Compensating for literacy delay in children with specific learning difficulties/dyslexia
Author(s) -
HELLIER CYRIL
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
support for learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.25
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1467-9604
pISSN - 0268-2141
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9604.1994.tb00179.x
Subject(s) - dyslexia , learning disability , variety (cybernetics) , literacy , closing (real estate) , psychology , balance (ability) , mathematics education , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , pedagogy , reading (process) , computer science , law , political science , artificial intelligence , philosophy , neuroscience
Cyril Hellier's views on dyslexia support those advanced by Michael Connor in the previous issue of Support for Learning. He rejects the sterile debate, frequently heard on the topic, that concentrates somewhat fruitlessly on definitions and labels. This does not square with his experience in South Australia where the expression ‘dyslexia’ is rarely used. Instead, he sensibly reviews the presenting features of the problem and a variety of approaches to its amelioration and concludes, like Connor, that a balance of tuition is what is necessary.