Dore Evangelism

EoR has been bemused by the Dore program's incursions into Australia before. Now The Times has published an article purportedly by a spokesman for the Dore people, rugby player Kenny Logan: "How T Tackled 30 Years of Shame". EoR won't bother you with the full story (it's pretty standard stuff: "my life was a misery until I discovered the [insert quackery of choice] therapy program which was a miracle in every aspect of my life"), but there are one or two interesting points. EoR could be accused of being overly suspicious, but the whole thing reads like a press release from the Dore people themselves, and he really wonders whether Kenny Logan actually wrote it.

Research suggests that poor development or damage to the cerebellum can impair development of the language skills necessary for learning to read and write, but it doesn’t affect intelligence.

That's either written by the Dore people, or Mr Logan copied it out of their propaganda.

And it’s not just young people. An 83-year-old woman went on the course saying: "All I want to do is read before I die". She can now speak three different languages.

That's the same story Wynford Dore himself tells on their propaganda DVD in virtually the same words. Who's channelling whom here? Chris Tregenza at Myomancy is also suspicious of Mr Logan's motives:

Kenny Logan is now 34 and at the end of his playing career so I wonder if Kenny is promoting himself to help him onto the pundit circuit or if he is being paid by DDAT / Dore? The Times article certainly implies that he was dealing directly with Wynford Dore which isn't normal for DDAT customers.

These sort of unproven approaches rely heavily on testimonials, and Dore USA has an amazing two from "professionals", one of whom is Kenny Logan. Well, he's a "professional" in the sense that he's a professional rugby player. Certainly not a health or learning professional. There's nothing wrong with that, but it's like getting a professional electrician to solve your plumbing problems. When EoR visited the site, the first paragraph had him also thinking he had dyslexia, and needed Dore's help immediately:

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EoR's brain is going! Everything he tries to read seems like junk Latin!

The Dore program, however, is not a money-making exercise. It seems it's a charity:

We have subsidised everybody who has gone through the programme around the world - had we charged the full cost of providing this service folk would have had to pay substantially more than they have up until now. If the similar tests were conducted at a private hospital to those we carry out it would cost in excess of £5,000, just for the tests alone.

Yes, there are some tests undertaken at the beginning of the program, but the bulk of it seems to be things like standing on a wobble board or catching a ball. This claim of losing money seems to be stretching bounds of credulity.

Mr Logan is also discussed at I Speak of Dreams.