Dore’s Research Under Attack in The Guardian
The Dore Achievement Centers published research has come under heavy attack from The Guardian’s Bad Science column.
But what about this current study? Well, it’s a follow up of those original children. Jenny Hope in the Daily Mail says there were 35 children with dyslexia. In fact only 29 children were followed up in this study, and only 8 of those had a diagnosis of dyslexia or dyspraxia. Some were, in fact, reading very well – up to 22 months ahead of their reading age! - before the treatment started. If she’d read the study carefully she might have flagged up some other flaws in it.
There was no control group this time, all the children had the Dore miracle cure, so there’s no way of knowing if the improvements were due to Dore or some other factors (the passage of time, or the non-specific effects of receiving extra input and attention from the Dore program, and so on).
Read the full article on Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog.
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November 6th, 2006
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Comments on: Dore’s Research Under Attack in The Guardian
The article made a lot of sense. Independent research on Dore is impossible to find. Dores own research is a complete joke. It should be know that the dore approach is completely worthless. Stick to treatments with at least some professioal backing.
Posted by: mike January 21st, 2007 at 8:05 pm
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