“Cutting Edge: Not Dumb, Just Different: It’s a Matter of Style.”
Conner, J.E. (1991).
Journal of Developmental Education, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 34-35.
Reviews research in reading styles and implications for young and adult learners. Conner emphasizes the critical need to accommodate students’ reading styles, or, he warns, the by-product will continue to be the transfer of blame “from teacher and policy maker to student” and the continued labeling of underachieving learners with pejorative terms like “learning-disabled, attention-deficient, hyperactive, mentally retarded and dyslexic” (p. 34).
