An open invitation to Dr Rutherford of Dore

Dear Dr Rutherford,
We have both been asked by the forum moderators at Dore Talk to move debate elsewhere.
I understand you were also less than happy at having your reply to the Guardian ‘Bad Science‘ article mentioning my blog deleted by the newspaper moderators on grounds of libel, as was I – I’d far rather debate [...]

USA DORE close too

Several sources indicate that US Dore centres have also closed down. It looks as though people will be switched to My Dore, a website giving videos and instructions for the exercises.
I’d suggest cancelling any payments which may be due or cheques you may have written that have not yet been cashed, as soon as possible. [...]

DORE shut

*updated with info on administrators, Friday 31st May*
DORE UK have shut down, officially confirmed.
‘It is with great regret that we have to announce that Dore has been put into the hands of advisors. As a result Dore is closing all of the UK centres which deliver the Dore Programme with immediate effect.
We are determined to [...]

DORE statement on Australia

DORE have at last put up a brief confirmation on DOREtalk that DORE Australia are not operating due to being in financial trouble. If you’ve come to this blog looking for information on that, please read the post below this one first, I’m updating it regularly with any & all sources I can find.
I’ve tried [...]

DORE Australia collapse

Last updated Saturday morning, GMT. I’ve written a timeline of UK & international DORE goings-on in another post, will be updating there from now on instead.
An offer: if anyone wants to make available information about what is going on without revealing their identity, I’m happy to re-post stuff anonymously, unedited and in full. Bung me [...]

Radio programme on Dyslexia

I’ve been listening to a very interesting programme on BBC Radio 4, about dyslexia.
There’s some interesting comments from Prof Nicholson (co-author of the ‘Balsall Common’ DORE studies). This particularly discusses the development, uses, and limitations of the ‘Dyslexia Screening Test’ which Prof Nicholson developed, & which is used as a test of progress in the [...]

DORE breakthrough published in, ummm ‘Leamington Courier’

DORE have chosen to distribute their news of a ‘Major Autism Breakthrough’ via the doubtless-estimable Leamington Courier.
Now, I’m all for the public understanding of science, and particularly advances in educational psychology, or I wouldn’t be writing this blog.
However, publishing science by press-release to local papers first is Not On, particularly when said science could influence [...]

DORE talk discuss research critique

I’ve been having an interesting & rather heated discussion on the DORE forums (I’m ‘psyduck’) about the infamous Reynolds et al (2003) paper which caused resignations of 5 academics from the board of Dyslexia (several of whom are teaching me this year), & particularly the Bishop (2007) critique.
I thought I’d link to the whole discussion [...]

Why are DORE so bad at research?

When I first heard of DORE, I thought they sounded like a good idea. There is not a lot of research into dyspraxia in particular (which I have), so anything that produces good results would be very welcome.
The problem is that they keep publishing papers which are a bit rubbish really, with silly mistakes, and [...]