Dyslexia

[elvis]

Dyslexia

is a very broad term defining a learning disability that impairs a person's fluency or comprehension accuracy in being able to read, and which can manifest itself as a difficulty with phonological awareness, phonological decoding, orthographic coding, auditory short-term memory, or rapid naming.
Dyslexia

is distinct from reading difficulties resulting from other causes, such as a non-neurological deficiency with vision or hearing, or from poor or inadequate reading instruction.] It is believed that dyslexia can affect between 5 and 10 percent of a given population although there have been no studies to indicate an accurate percentage.
There are three proposed cognitive subtypes of dyslexia: auditory, visual and attentional. Reading disabilities, or dyslexia, is the most common learning disability, although in research literature it is considered to be a receptive language-based learning disability. Researchers at MIT found that people with dyslexia exhibited impaired voice-recognition abilities.
Adult dyslexics can read with good comprehension, but they tend to read more slowly than non-dyslexics and perform more poorly at spelling and nonsense word reading, a measure of phonological awareness. Dyslexia and IQ are not interrelated as a result of cognition developing independently.

[Lynnrose]

Elvis, everything ok?

[elvis]

Yes why LynnRose ?

[Lynnrose]

Just wondering if their was a specific reason for telling us the above?

[elvis]

I just posted it as i am Dyslexia and i have just found out and i am 58

[Lynnrose]

OK Elvis, at least you know now, maybe they will offer you some help of some kind

[Roz]

Read this Elvis. Copied from www.dyslexic.org.uk/


Talented and famous dyslexics

There are many, many examples of superbly successful dyslexics in all walks of life, eg. Albert Einstein, Winston Churchill, Hans Christian Andersen, Richard Branson, possibly even Leonardo da Vinci. Probably their mild genetically endowed impairment of magnocellular development was balanced by superior connectivity of other nerve cells in the brain, such as parvo cells.

During development of the brain, neurones compete with each other for connections, hence dyslexics’ disadvantaged magnocells may lose out to stronger parvo cells. But this would allow the parvo cells to make stronger and more numerous connections. Thus dyslexics may often have better parvo functions than good readers, such as superior colour sense and holistic visuospatial perception. This may explain why so many dyslexics have exceptional artistic, engineering and entrepreneurial talents, since these depend on being able to perceive connections that others don’t see so easily. Dyslexia is not all gloom and misery!

[vikingken]

That's probably why all your great artists and people like Einstein are as crazy as loons Roz. Churchill was as mad as Hitler, he just happened to be on the winning side. Harris might not have been running around stealing art treasures like the lunatic Goering; but her would have been slaughtering women and kids sooner if he had the pilots and planes to do it. I doubt very much that Harris would ever admit to being dyslexic, but its funny that the only person that agreed to his bloodthirsty tactics was Churchill. They say Einstein was a genius, but most of his theories are so ridiculous they cant be proven either way. I know lots of dyslectics and none of them are nutters, but most are not the full shilling either.

[jojo]

Have the same problem elvis, though, like you, it was never diagnosed when I was young. Actually, in the 60s, most teachers refused to accept that it existed, we were just lazy!

In the 70s, when I did a lot of writing, I would type on an old Imperial. Then go through each word to check it against my Letts dictionary. I got pretty good using it with one hand! But sadly, my tendency to put letters the wrong way around was a bit more of a problem.

I've know people who also use to write letters in mirror. Fortunately, didn't affect me.

Computers have done a lot to cover it up, with their spell checkers. Also, the facility to make the print much bigger is a real help.

Just to let you know you'r enot alone. But as with so many things, I feel very strongly that the best we ca do now is make sure the next generation is better supported. I personally think the current round of young people are the best yet. I have total faith in them. (I don't like their music, though I'm pretty sure that's the point! ). That's how humanity progresses of course.

[elvis]

Thanks LynnRose & Roz but i do not think it is going to bother me now ether way and i just don't care anymore about it.

H! Jojo yes i went to school in the 60-70 i could not read or write when i left school i do get a lot of stick for it, and still do. your lazy, supid, (see cant spell that right) a lot of fighting as well but i just take it all now.