[Dialogue] Another reason to root for the Red Sox

[Lifeline248 at aol.com]

Cynthia, thank you for that URL concerning the holier-than-thou Rockies and 
my faith in their down-to-earth Series rivals from Beantown.

I grew up playing baseball with the neighborhood boys (when they were short a 
"man" and would let me) in a swearing, dyed-in-the-wool Roman Catholic family 
(for starters), in a small milltown in north central Massachusetts where 
baseball and the Red Sox were next to godliness.   As one who no longer believes 
there is one true church or faith, what the Rockies have done is scary.   I 
hope those crazy Sox continue to beat the shit out of them. 
Lucille Tessier Chagnon

Allow me a long PS   for those who are interested: 
I don't believe in dyslexia either...
since Dr. Renee Fuller successfully opened the doors to reading--with humor 
and understanding--to institutionalized teens and adults with IQs in the 30s 
and above.   Her website (below, below mine) is worth a trip.   At 12 she was 
reading at a second grade level, two years after escaping from Hitler to the US. 
  She taught herself to read the summer before 7th grade with the Wizard of 
Oz books and ended up years later with a Ph.D. in physiological psychology.   
She was the Director of Psychological Services at Rosewood, the Maryland 
institution for the retarded in Owings Mills   and on her shelf were the wacky 
ten-volume, 100-page "science-fiction" readers--about Vad the Rocket Man and 
others--that she had written for "normal" kids who couldn't learn to read.   It took 
a year for her staff to break through her blind resistance to their 
conviction that their residents could learn to read with her books.   Finally, in 
aggravation over their insistence, she relented, telling them it wouldn't work 
because "these people are retards; look at their IQs."   Well, she no longer 
believes in the validity of the IQ as a predictor of intelligence because the 
residents started to learn to read.   Four were successfully de-institutionalized, 
and just about everyone in the 26-person study she did moved up in one way or 
another. 
 
Her book, "In Search of the IQ Correlation" grew out of a Symposium at the 
1972 annual meeting of the American Psychological Assoc.   Never heard of her?   
Neither has 99.44% of teachers and 100% of the US Dept. of Ed.   Who wants to 
hear about something funny and simple that will prevent millions of kids 
(including my adopted twin sons who turn 30 TODAY!) from getting locked into 
Special Ed. with a negative label until somebody, usually not a teacher, unlocks 
the door to reading.   Fuller's books did it for Dan and Dave, and today they 
are taking college courses and tops in their fields.

Like me, Renee never took a reading course in her life.   Despite that, at 
Rutgers inner-city campus in Camden, NJ, I very successfully replaced the Chair 
of the Education Dept. teaching Developmental Reading and Language Arts for 
two semesters while running the Rutgers Urban Literacy Program for the Urban 
Studies Dept. for eight years.

I hope I've whetted the appetites for newness of a few teachers, parents, and 
neighbors, etc. who know someone of whatever age who can't read. 

Lucille T. Chagnon, M.Ed.
Literacy Acceleration Consultants
6448 Arbor Lane   -   P O Box 438
Chincoteague Island, VA 23336-0438
757-336-5047      fax -1391
cell   302-561-4575
e-mail:   lifeline248 at aol.com
www.teachtwo.net          ...check it out!
see also Renee Fuller's website:    www.ballstickbird.com





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