| Jobs for Teachers |
|
PE Teacher (50%)
Brandeis Hillel Day School San Francisco, CA |
|
On-Site School Nurse
Middlebury Interactive Languages Swarthmore, PA |
|
Get Away to an Adventure: Teach in China!
Learn Yu Wen, Inc. Boston, MA |
|
Reading Teachers Needed in Taiwan
Knowledge Tree New Taipei City, Asia |
|
Science Teacher (Middle School)
Brandeis Hillel Day School San Francisco, CA |
| More Teaching Jobs Like These... |
Re: Doman / Delacato / Repatterning is Pseudoscience! Cautio
Posted by Danny Murray on 1/19/06
Jan. 19, 2006
Hi,
Does anyone know anything about the effectiveness of the
Structures of Intellect labs and improving reading skills.
Our school distrct just invested huge amounts of money into
the labs the be used as reading intervention. I can't find
any 3rd person research from outside of the company that
shows the labs work. I checked with the International
Reading Association as well and found nothing.
Sounds like a Doman and Delacato approach to me. If you have
any information please let me know.
Danny Murray
dmurray@pageud.k12.az.us
On 6/29/05, LL wrote:
> What I see is very sad...
>
> I see so many people here who are looking, rightfully so,
> for solutions to children's learning and developmental
> needs. What I am deeply saddened by, is the unfortunate
> nature by which loving parents and teachers are lead
> toward unresearched, unfounded, and in the case of Doman-
> Delacato Repatterning techniques--treatments which have
> been well-researched and found to have been entirely
> ineffective!
>
> I don't mean to be a "downer" here, but I feel that my
> extensive research background has a purpose here. I want
> to continue to educate those who have not looked, or not
> found, the research behind the techniques they are
> interested in using.
>
> Please review the following items. They are a small
> sampling of the multiple research articles out there that
> strongly indicate Doman's techniques are not supported in
> the literature.
>
> Psychomotor Repatterning--Pseudoscience:
> http://www.theness.com/articles/patterning-cs0104.html
>
> Neurophysiological Approaches (A Critique)
> http://207.44.158.59/~admin2/dyslexia/index/articles/displa
> y/69
>
> Position Statement regarding repatterning: American
> Academy of Pediatrics
> http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pedia
> trics;104/5/1149
>
> Position Statement on Doman-Delacato Treatment:
> National Downs Syndrome Congress
> http://members.carol.net/~ndsc/doman.html
>
> Procedures to Avoid:
> http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/mentserv.
> html
>
> National Council Against Health Fraud:
> http://www.ncahf.org/nl/2001/7-8.html
>
> Hines, T. M. (2001). The Doman-Delacato patterning
> treatment for brain damage. The Scientific Review of
> Alternative Medicine, 5, 80-89.
> Abstract:
> Hines critically reviews the theoretical and empirical
> bases of "patterning" therapy, a treatment for brain
> damage that involves a series of bodily exercises that are
> intended to "rewire" the brain. Hines observes that
> patterning advocates posit models of brain development and
> organization that are grossly erroneous. Moreover, he
> finds that the research evidence supporting the efficacy
> of patterning is weak, methodological flawed, or both. In
> one ostensibly supportive study, for example, the
> investigators conducted 276 separate statistical tests and
> found that only 8.2&37; of the findings attained
statistical
> significance at the p < .05 level. Moreover, because many
> of the dependent measures were highly intercorrelated,
> this overall result may actually represent worse than
> chance effects for patterning.
>
> These are just a few summaries of the research that has
> extensively demonstrated a lack of connection between the
> Doman (i.e., Doman-Delacato) methods and improvement in
> children's functioning.
>
> The scholarly research that has been done is
> comprehensive. Check out your local university library or
> www.scholar.google.com for more information as I cannot
> post the articles directly here due to copyright.
78
Teacher's Desk
Chatboards
Lesson Plans
Projects
Jobs
For Sale
Articles
Mailrings
Live Chat
Live Meetings
Printables
Harry Wong