ITV Yorkshire do Dore anecdote

Hi all, I’ve not vanished, just had a summer job which mostly involved being in muddy fields far from the Internet.
For anyone else in Yorkshire, ITV Yorkshire are going to be doing a Dore anecdote / free advertising tonight in the 6 o’clock ‘news’.
I’ve phoned them up this afternoon and explained the background & problems [...]

Dore NZ ‘voluntary liquidation’

Oh no, not again…

Company Number
1259796
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Company
DORE GROUP (NZ) LIMITED (IN LIQ)

EMAIL CERTIFICATE

Incorporated
27-NOV-2002
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Entity Type
Company

EMAIL EXTRACT

Constitution Filed
Yes

CERTIFICATE OF GOOD STANDING

Annual Return Filing Month
June

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Status Details

Current Status
In Liquidation

From
To

Previous Status
Registered
27th November 2002
23rd March 2009

Liquidation Details

Commenced: 23-MAR-2009    Status: Active

Name
Organisation
Phone
Email

Downes, Timothy Wilson
GRANT THORNTON AUCKLAND LIMITED
+64 9 [...]

You & Yours on Dore coming up

‘Fri 15th August You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm
12.30: Face the Facts: The Dore Programme: controversial treatment for
dyslexia has gone bust.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/newsletter/
Probably be on Listen Again here afterwards: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/facethefacts/
May be interesting – particularly in light of the appalling record of You and Yours as a vehicle for Dore advertorial, including an interview & plug the day before Dore [...]

I’m Dave Walker

To follow up my previous post on Cartoon Church & SSGT, I’m re-publishing all Dave Walker’s original posts on SPCK on my blog as a PDF (Thanks to Matt Wardman for putting these together). I do not believe that SSGT should be allowed to use legal bullying to prevent some very mild-mannered comments from a [...]

‘Cartoon Church’ blog target of legal bullying

This post isn’t anything to do with Psychology, it’s just a quick note to help out a fellow blogger whose work I like. For those of you who haven’t realised, I’m one of those annoying God-botherers, of the quieter Quaker variety. Grumpier atheist readers may wish to restrict themselves to looking at the pretty picture [...]

I’m offline for a bit

Just to let anyone who wants to know know, I’ll be offline for a couple of weeks – may occasionally pick up emails to brainquack at gmail dot com, but I won’t be on blogs & forums & stuff. I’ll be away completely for the next fortnight, probably not be online more than occasionally until [...]

Wynford buys assets, staff & clients remain unpaid

The ‘Sun’ newspaper today claimed that Wynford Dore had brought the assets – but not the liabilities – of the Dore programme from the administrators, at least in the UK. The Dore treatment may keep going in some form, but staff & clients won’t get their money back.
This letter from Wynford (PDF) suggests Dore are [...]

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 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 [...]

Brain Gym

There’s a discussion of Brain Gym on the NeuroLogica blog, written from a neurological rather than EdPsych perspective. I found the discussion of the history of ‘psychomotor patterning’ most interesting – useful background to understand the development of movement-based approaches to treating learning difficulties and disabilities.
(BTW, sorry for lack of recent posts, final exams & [...]