I am a cixelsyd, sorrry dyslexic, I also have degrees in four different engineering fields; I also stutter. I didn’t find out that I had dyslexia until my first year in college while taking a non-technical elective in psych.
Dyslexia is not a problem for me at all. OK, once I did my income taxes in reverse, but I go it fixed. Some the brightest people in history have been dyslexic. Any child with dyslexia needs only to have it explained to him and he will cope, adapt and you’ll never know they are dyslexic. Hell, they might even turn out brighter than the people who consider it a problem.
“Any child with dyslexia needs only to have it explained to him and he will cope, adapt and you’ll never know they are dyslexic”
Do you think it relates to phonics versus whole-word methods of teaching students to read?
My form often used to leave my papers written with entire sentences missing or words and letters dropped from sentences I had written. I would do the same thing when I would read. I often would swear up and and down that I had done or read everything(almost violently so, I was so convinced), when I was told I had a form of dyslexia I was enrolled into an extra class after school where the teacher would have me reread aloud over and over again until I got it right. I had to do this for 3 years. Since then I have an almost 99% correct rate of reading and writing and normally do not have to read things more than once to understand fully(whichis a key, I couldnt comprehend that I missed something, I now can comprehend that I missed something) , writing I still sometimes have fits where I continously have to read and reread and correct my mistakes. Not every dyslexia is as simple as mine though but I am bettng alot of these cases could use good old fashioned teaching of perseverence to overcome the issue.
This must be the only website where everybody is both above average and has every trendy dysfunction known to exist.