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Charlie, at thirteen, was a non-reader. He had been given four years' remedial help with reading, but when he first visited the Centre for Learning Disabilities, he could identify only three letter...s — A,0 and X. At the Centre, under the guidance of David Moseley (who also acts as consultant for the correspondence text of this Unit; Charlie's reading rapidly improved. The programme records his progress over several months and illuminates some of the techniques available to a specialist teacher intervening in the learning process. There are also extracts from an interview with Charlie five years later; now working as a carpenter and having little difficulty with ordinary reading. Besides David Moseley and Charlie, other voices heard in the programme are those of Charlie's mother, Asher Cashdan, Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies at the Open University, and Edward Milner, the producer who acted as Charlie's interviewer.
Charlie, at thirteen, was a non-reader. He had been given four years' remedial help with reading, but when he first visited the Centre for Learning Disabilities, he could identify only three letter...s — A,0 and X. At the Centre, under the guidance of David Moseley (who also acts as consultant for the correspondence text of this Unit; Charlie's reading rapidly improved. The programme records his progress over several months and illuminates some of the techniques available to a specialist teacher intervening in the learning process. There are also extracts from an interview with Charlie five years later; now working as a carpenter and having little difficulty with ordinary reading. Besides David Moseley and Charlie, other voices heard in the programme are those of Charlie's mother, Asher Cashdan, Senior Lecturer in Educational Studies at the Open University, and Edward Milner, the producer who acted as Charlie's interviewer.
| Module code and title: | E201, Personality and learning |
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| Item code: | E201; 28 |
| Recording date: | 1976-05-09: 1976-06-15 |
| First transmission date: | 05-09-1976 |
| Published: | 1976 |
| Rights Statement: | Rights owned or controlled by The Open University |
| Restrictions on use: | This material can be used in accordance with The Open University conditions of use. A link to the conditions can be found at the bottom of all OUDA web pages. |
| Duration: | 00:18:16 |
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| Producer: | Edward Milner |
| Contributors: | Charlie Flatt; David Mosely; Edward Milner; Asher Cashdan |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Learning process; Specialist teacher; Techniques |
| Master spool number: | BLN24FW534J |
| Production number: | BLN24FW534J |
| Available to public: | no |
