Dore research ‘is rubbish’, but I still can’t tell you so

The Dore website dore.co.uk has been redesigned recently. In the process they seem to have ‘lost’ all mention of the ‘Balsall Common’ study (Reynolds, Nicholson, Hambly, 2003; Reynolds & Nicholson, 2006), which though heavily criticised was the only research on Dore published in a peer-reviewed journal. They also seem to have dropped the various bits […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]