Talk:Dore (dyslexia treatment)
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- The actual quote from the cited resource says: "Wynford Dore, the businessman who pioneered dyslexia, dyspraxia and attention deficit therapy (DDAT) after his dyslexic daughter became suicidal." Ste4k 12:38, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- The actual quote from the other cited resource says: "They were set up by British millionaire Wynford Dore, and have treated 25,000 children with learning problems across Australia and the US." Ste4k 12:41, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
- Andrew Alderson's article "Brain exercises 'improve' behaviour of criminals" from The Daily Telegraph, 04-06-2006 should not be mentioned under the Effectiveness header. Surely this is an example of "original research" (a breach of Wiki policy)? The tests were commissioned by DORE and the company appear to have gone directly to the media with their results. Apparently, DORE has drawn heavy fire from medical experts in the past for this sort of thing, and their claims are regarded with suspicion by the scientific establishment. How independant were these tests? Did DORE submit to the usual scientific review? Are there journal references? Is Andrew Alderson an epilepsy expert? Someone needs to look into this.
[edit] NPOV
This is a very important subject so I think it is equally important that the article is tidied up and made as informative as possible. The claims and counter-claims need to be stated properly and references sited (I've found a few but there are many more out there). I've taken the 'not npov' label off as I think I have taken out the offending statements but clearly there is much to do to make this article as good as it can be. Btljs 22:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Stafford prison study
I've just added a note to the Stafford prison section: the study was fully funded by Wynford Dore, and has not been peer-reviewed. There are no further details of the study on http://www.dore.co.uk/research.aspx, but asking the prisoners to report qualitative outcomes introduces an obvious source of memory bias. A more credible study would also have compared outcomes with other methods; the choice when dealing with troubled prisoners is not DORE or nothing. Motmot 15:01, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
