Well, this programme has certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons, as if parents with children suffering with ADHD hadn’t got enough to worry about! Yet this is another extremely good reason (as if there weren’t enough already) for benchmarking all interventions for learning issues.
Every type of programme whether it is prescription drugs, reading programmes (phonics or otherwise), coloured lenses, fish oils or exercise programmes (like Dore) must be subjected to full scrutiny. Such benchmarking should include the symptoms that will benefit (or not), possible side effects, the degree of which the results are lasting, etc.
Our Government seems to manage to come up with benchmarking for so many things that are far less important than our children’s education yet somehow there is an industry out there that has succeeded in stopping it happening up to now.
At Dore we have been lobbying for this for some time and make a point of going public about all our research. It is seriously negligent of other organisations that are in this field to have a different attitude.
Every type of programme whether it is prescription drugs, reading programmes (phonics or otherwise), coloured lenses, fish oils or exercise programmes (like Dore) must be subjected to full scrutiny. Such benchmarking should include the symptoms that will benefit (or not), possible side effects, the degree of which the results are lasting, etc.
Our Government seems to manage to come up with benchmarking for so many things that are far less important than our children’s education yet somehow there is an industry out there that has succeeded in stopping it happening up to now.
At Dore we have been lobbying for this for some time and make a point of going public about all our research. It is seriously negligent of other organisations that are in this field to have a different attitude.
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