Hi Graham
I wonder if Erik Prins would find your item of 'new' interesting?
Best wishes
Lloyd Richardson
On Wed, 14 May 2003 16:51:07 +0100 Sellick Graham
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> Have a look at
>
> http://www.bdainternationalconference.org/presentations/thu_s5_a_5.htm
>
> 1974 a report on dyslexia by the British Council stated: "dyslexia can
> affect performance on standard IQ tests and produce misleading results".
>
> Graham
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ginny Stacey [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: 14 May 2003 16:29
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: dyslexia and changing IQ
> >
> >
> > I have just been reading the April version of the Guidance
> > chapter 7 page
> > 35 about dyslexia assessments and I wonder what anyone else
> > thinks about
> > the statement that IQ doesn't change.
> >
> > I know the basic potential isn't supposed to change, but the
> > tests measure
> > what you can do or have learnt rather than raw potential.
> > Suppose a child
> > is identified as dyslexic in school and then has regular
> > tuition so that
> > the key language skills are more or less in place. This
> > isn't a cure for
> > dyslexia. You still have to work your way round the effects
> > of short-term
> > memory problems, and various other adult affects of dyslexia.
> > However you
> > can get language stable enough to do really quite well in the literacy
> > tests available. I suspect that some adults will have
> > literacy results
> > that when compared with child values of IQ make it look like
> > the dyslexia
> > is no longer a problem and that if a new IQ test were done the results
> > would increase with the literacy skill increase. In which case the
> > difference between IQ and literacy would still be evident.
> >
> > What research has been done? Is anyone doing any? What does
> > anyone else
> > think?
> >
> > Ginny Stacey
> >
> > Dr Ginny Stacey
> > Support Tutor for Dyslexic Students
> >
> > Oxford Brookes University
> > Student Services
> > Helena Kennedy Student Centre, Headington HillCampus
> > Headington, Oxford OX3 0BP
> >
> > email: [log in to unmask]
> > tel: 01865 484659
> >
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