Children of the code - reading comprehension - not biomed but.......

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Not biomed but equally interesting and in a way perhaps connected to our kids in

more ways than one.

this:

http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/lindamoodbell.htm#TheOriginofmo\

odBell is an interview with the mood Bell people. Fascinating.

This: http://www.childrenofthecode.org/shamestories.htm is from " Children of

the Code " which is an upcoming documentary about how we read/understand and the

failure so far in getting our kids to do this, particularly OUR kids. This

article talks about reading shame and the effect it has on millions of people,

particularly kids.

Our kids' sensory systems (skewed?) affect them in so many ways.

Interestingly enough, the first link talks about doctors and clinicians out

there who are unable to get the 'whole' picture, the 'gestalt' but who are

prescribing and diagnosing. They see parts of your health picture but not the

whole!!! So what happens when they prescribe drugs? I know a doctor like this -

he just doesnt get the whole picture. And he is a psychiatrist.

very scary

here's an excerpt - well worth looking into this web site, loads and loads on

comprehension and what is 'needed' for our kids to read.

from:

http://www.childrenofthecode.org/interviews/lindamoodbell.htm#TheOriginofmo\

odBell

" Reading Shame:

Boulton: It's very clear to me that we have a — for example in talking to

Wedgeworth, the president of ProLiteracy, one thing they're focusing on

is identifying the consumer behavior of adult illiterates. People that have

struggled historically with trying to read, have radically different consumer

behaviors. You say, " Well, what has that got do with anything? " But it's very

important in how it reveals something deeper. Based on studies that they've

done, the American Medical Association has done, and other organizations have

done, what they're realizing is that people that cannot read, read well enough -

when they go into a store, the primary thing that's motivating them, their

attention, is how to avoid being embarrassed about it.

Pat mood: Sure.

Nanci Bell: Uh-huh.

Boulton: Right? I can't tell you how many people I've met that once they

started to understand what I was doing, let down their guard and described how

they have this shame aversion because they don't read that well, and they're

constantly trying to hide it.

Pat mood: They get very good at it, too.

Boulton: Yes, just like we do about anything we're ashamed of. Shame is

incredibly self-deceptive and avoiding.

Pat mood: We've had clinical experience with neurosurgeons and other

physicians who are not reading and spelling accurately enough to really function

well in their medical field.

Boulton: That's kind of scary.

Pat mood: It's kind of scary when you think about that.

Boulton: Don't tell me about the airline pilots, though. I don't want to

know.

Nanci Bell: One person that we worked with that was a doctor down the hall from

us told me that he — the reason that doctors scribble prescriptions is because

they can't spell the word.

Then on the other side, we were talking about the two-sided coin, then we have

seen people trying to be physicians who cannot pass their boards. And they don't

have trouble reading and spelling words, they can't comprehend. Their

comprehension is like the second percentile. (see: shame stories)