Teaching Disabilities

AU$ 20.75
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This book is dedicated to all the parents, friends, spouses and teachers struggling with the problem of dyslexia.

It's a 200-page B2 satire illustrated by Armin Greder in Goyaesque charcoal drawings. It features a tapestry of inappropriate teaching for dyslectics.

It is intended that it will remove the clutter surrounding the situation currently and give a base on which constructive action may happen.

This book is a fact/fiction blend in which family histories and educational deficits are traced over two hundred years with humour and satire.

All angles and persons contributing, from professional reports to humble inadvertent participants, contribute to a harmless sendup.

Threaded throughout are the genetics and educational consequences from individuals and families who inherit the state of dyslexia. But only indirectly.

Like the casual dismissal by teachers past and present of serious longterm consequences that lead to jail, unemployment, social ostracism, failure, poor education despite superior intelligence (due to literacy/numeracy key being lost), menial work and no 'fat' anything, except by long odds chance, despite inventive genius.

No fat house, car, bank balance such as the perpetrators of the situation enjoy, often with palm in pot, secretaries and plush premises.

Real anonymous documents as well as imaginary but typical ones are incorporated.

Such things as letters from specialist and anxious parents seeking useful remedial advice.

This book covers territory not before dealt with in that it is not an autobiography on what the victim feels nor is it a dry, jargon-loaded paper, comprehensible to a few academics and hiding simple concepts behind pseudo-erudite speechifying.

Instead a narrative sendup means it is used to try to show the whole picture, including all the people involved without one-sidedness.

Can be read as just a yarn on one level.