Anger as Experts Claim Dyslexia is a Myth

The Guardian (UK) ^ | September 3, 2005 | Sophie Kirkham

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

I issue think some Freepers take will with article this.

I ping will my mesozoic fiends.

[vbmoneyspender]

But the suggestion has angered many dyslexic people and dyslexia organisations, who say the argument is damaging and unhelpful.

Dammit, I want to be a victim!

[ZULU]

!tnemetats suolucidir a tahW

[Prime Choice]

I dno't konw waht yuo're tlaknig aobut. Ervyetinhg mdae pefrcet sesne to me.

[Prime Choice]

Hey! Who turned my keyboard umop episdn?

[GeronL]

The BBC never makes sense. Split it up into 5 or 6 parts and let those who pay the 'TV tax' decide which channel[s] to send their portion to.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

You think YOU got problems?

[ChefKeith]

Obviously these jerks have never dealt with it 1st hand.

I used to sell auto parts and when we changed over to computer inventory control I was screwing up hourly with the new part #'s, sometimes I would just get 1 or 2 digits swapped and other times I would flip the whole # backwards. It didn't help that we also went from Alphanumeric to numeric at the same time.

[little jeremiah]

I do the exact same thing; it has gotten slightly worse in the last few years. I also transpose letters when typing, sometimes whole words, and now occasionally I transpose words when actually speaking.

But the idea that I would have ever needed special ANYTHING is stoopid. Or stoodip.

:-)

I think it's brain damage from all the drugs I took long, long ago.

[Old Seadog]

Dyslexia? Naw....

[Larry Lucido]

I always thought you were a bit wardsback, Rebloggblur.

[ocos]

As far back as the fifties in 'Why Johnny Can't read and what you can do about it' Rudolf Flesch was saying that Whole Language Instruction is causing dyslexia. If you were taught with the see Jill run books then that was Whole Language or Sight Word Instruction.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

As an English and a reading instructor, I dealt with adults with poor reading skills and those with dyslexia. You can tell the difference.

It's a real problem for some people. You have to use coping strategies (and there are a number of them, like using blue paper, which seems to help).

A poor reader can improve his reading without those strategies, by working on rate, vocabulary and analytical reading skills. It's not that hard to teach.

This won't improve the real problems a dyslexic is having decoding words. It's not the same problem. I know dyslexics who have Ph.Ds - they still struggle with texts. They've learned ways to cope.

[mo]

What this report does is relieve the government from having to deal with the problem........

[reagan_fanatic]

OLL! This theard is crakcing me up!

[Doc Savage]

If you owned a herd of cattle, say a thousand head, and the local vet after inspecting your herd proclaimed that one out of every ten had a genetic disability, you would sell the entire herd to a feed lot and give up ranching!

1 in 10 Britons????? How the hell do these people even exist?????? Sounds like the entire cast from "Airplane"!

[maryz]

There was an article posted here a while back, saying that dyslexia also affects the Chinese, but in a different part of the brain (undoubtedly because of the difference in writing systems).

That said, there are of course abuses. My sister used to work in the modern language department of a large university. The number of students who didn't like foreign languages who came to the office asking for an exemption from the language requirement because they were dyslexic (self-diagnosed!) was staggering.

[irishjuggler]

Ann Coulter has pretty much been saying the same thing for years (i.e., dismissing dyslexia as a convenient cover for "rich parents of dumb kids").

[Rennes Templar]

Dyslexia is not something we should make pun of.

[wayoverontheright]

I'm a dyslexic but I don't shiv a git.