Comments on: A new classic text from a young dyslexic http://ictsan.edublogs.org/2009/03/18/a-new-classic-text-from-a-young-dyslexic/ ICT Support for Additional Needs Wed, 20 May 2009 22:13:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Eddie http://ictsan.edublogs.org/2009/03/18/a-new-classic-text-from-a-young-dyslexic/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Eddie Thu, 19 Mar 2009 13:25:33 +0000 http://ictsan.edublogs.org/?p=146#comment-16 Dear Mr Whittaker I have no doubt that you will remove my comment from your blog, bloggers do not like criticism. However, even biased publicity for a software product needs to be based on facts, otherwise, your credibility is dwindling fast. First, you write that Ghotit suggested 18 out of 21 errors in the text. If you ask any dyslexic child, he will tell you that suggestions are not good enough, what you need is to make the choices for the child, not overload him with options. Second, you did not verify the validity of the corrections offered by Ghotit. If you look at the first choice of each detected error, you will see that at least 5 are wrong suggestions. True, some of the corrections do show the appropriate word, somewhere along the list, but as I mentioned before, this does not help many dyslexic children. Third, you expect that the release version of Ghotit to score 20 out of 21. How do you know that and what is the release version, I looked at their web site and they have already released their version. I will not speculate here who you are and what are your motives but it does not sound creditable. Regards Eddie Cohen N.Y Dear Mr Whittaker
I have no doubt that you will remove my comment from your blog, bloggers do not like criticism.
However, even biased publicity for a software product needs to be based on facts, otherwise, your credibility is dwindling fast.

First, you write that Ghotit suggested 18 out of 21 errors in the text. If you ask any dyslexic child, he will tell you that suggestions are not good enough, what you need is to make the choices for the child, not overload him with options.

Second, you did not verify the validity of the corrections offered by Ghotit. If you look at the first choice of each detected error, you will see that at least 5 are wrong suggestions. True, some of the corrections do show the appropriate word, somewhere along the list, but as I mentioned before, this does not help many dyslexic children.

Third, you expect that the release version of Ghotit to score 20 out of 21. How do you know that and what is the release version, I looked at their web site and they have already released their version.
I will not speculate here who you are and what are your motives but it does not sound creditable.

Regards

Eddie Cohen N.Y

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