Graham Stringer MP Is Ignorant

Ignorant is to stupid what intelligence is to intellect.

The Labour retard backbench MP for Blackley, Graham Stringer says that dyslexia is a myth and we shouldn't be ploughing millions into helping people with a recognised disorder and it should be consigned to the "dustbin of history."

Stringer is basing his words largely on the controversial work of Durham Professor Julian Elliot who wrote in the Times Educational Supplement and was part of 2005 CH4 documentary called "The Dyslexia Myth". Stringer refers to Prof. Elliot's reseach:

"(it is also pretty damning that according to Professor Julian Elliot there are 28 different definitions of dyslexia).

But despite Stringer's posturing and complaining, even Professor Elliot concedes that dyslexia is real in a thoughtful article here: .

"I would hope that in twenty years from now, scientific advances have made a major impact upon our understandings of reading disability and the ways by which we can best help those who suffer so greatly. Maybe the term ‘dyslexia’ will survive but, if so, I hope that we will all – academics, clinicians, teachers and parents- have a much clearer consensual understanding about what we mean by the term."

What irritates Stringer is stuff like this (in his words):

"This reached a pinnacle of absurdity, with Naomi Gadien, a second year medical student initiating a legal case against the General Medical Council because she believes she’s being discriminated against by having to do written exams. I don’t know about anybody else but I want my doctors to be able to read and write."

But he has the answer: phonics. In the same way that social conservatives confuse gender dysphoria with natural learning (details) Stringer has picked up the title of a TV programme and run with it.

I'd agree Naomi Gadien has some gall to expect to be treated differently (and sue when she isn't) but that doesn't automatically mean that dyslexia is a myth and there is only specious evidence that phonics helps in dyslexia.

We really don't know what causes it - and like autism, it's more likely a spectrum with varying degrees of severity and even types. Calling it a myth is plane ignarnot.