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Dyslexic drivers 'slower to react than drinkers'
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Posted on 02/03/2005 11:05:54 AM PST by Grendel9
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IMO people with Dyslexic vision have learned to compensate by adulthood, Whatever task they undertake.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:05:54 AM PST
by
Grendel9
To: Grendel9
How would they pass the written test?
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:07:53 AM PST
by
Nitro
To: Grendel9
Odd, my little brother had bad dyslexia and was a very high ranked BMX, kart and sports car racer, almost as good a me, as well as being a very good lacrosse and hockey player.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:08:12 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Prepare for Fierce Allegiance day, Feb 9th.)
To: Grendel9
The study is flawed, actually Dyslexic people react in the same time frame but they turn left when they mean to turn right. I learned this at the last DAM (Mothers Against Dyslexia) meeting I went to.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:09:03 AM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(John Kerry, the mother of all flip floppers.I)
To: Grendel9
I don't know, I'm still confused by those traffic warnings. Why do they have a sign for "POTS"?.
To: U S Army EOD
Did you hear about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac?
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:13:55 AM PST
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: Nitro
Most dyslexics can read and write - it just takes them much longer to learn these skills and somewhat longer to perform them.
I don't see how inability to read words on signs is a significant impairment in terms of safety - stop, yield and danger signs convey their messages through images (like falling rocks) or shape and color (red octagon).
I can see how dyslexics would be more likely to take the wrong exit or miss a detour.
Even if they were more prone to miss safety-related signs, the fact that probably ten million people who know no English are on US roads right now is a greater concern.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:16:49 AM PST
by
wideawake
(God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
To: Fierce Allegiance
Odd, my little brother had bad dyslexia and was a very high ranked BMX, kart and sports car racer, almost as good a me, as well as being a very good lacrosse and hockey player. Sports don't have road signs.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:19:24 AM PST
by
glorgau
To: billorites
Stayed up all night pondering the existence of Dog....
To: U S Army EOD
Just remember. Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:20:11 AM PST
by
WSGilcrest
(Tinky likes it!)
To: U S Army EOD
I thought DAM was Drunks Against Mad Mothers
To: Grendel9
Nothing worse than a dyslexic drunk
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:21:41 AM PST
by
bikerman
To: wideawake
From Lucy Arnaz in "The Long Long Trailer."
"Turn right here, left."
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:22:51 AM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: glorgau
Ever raced a road course in a sports car or a kart? Ever seen a pit board? I'd say those are signs.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:23:25 AM PST
by
Fierce Allegiance
(Prepare for Fierce Allegiance day, Feb 9th.)
To: Grendel9
Dyslexics ofter get so depressed they just sit down and drink a 6-pack of Reeb.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:26:01 AM PST
by
TRY ONE
(NUKE the unborn gay whales!)
To: Grendel9
Dyslexic drivers 'slower to react than drinkers' What about dyslexics who drink? Would that increase or decrease their problems?
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:35:12 AM PST
by
HenryLeeII
(Democrats have helped kill more Americans than the Soviets and Nazis combined!)
To: Grendel9
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:44:46 AM PST
by
Graybeard58
(Remember and pray for Spec.4 Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: bikerman
Nothing worse than a dyslexic drunk
I wouldn't try driving, but in other matters we're still damn good fun.
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posted on
02/03/2005 11:52:31 AM PST
by
tjwmason
("For he himself has said it, And it's greatly to his credit, That he is an Englishman!")
To: Graybeard58
I wonder if the parade is going up the street?
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posted on
02/03/2005 12:02:47 PM PST
by
U S Army EOD
(John Kerry, the mother of all flip floppers.I)
To: Grendel9
Hmm I only get dyslexic when I'm having migraines. I do everything backwards. Talk backwards, write backwards...and I only drive if it's really important or an emergency.
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