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Dyslexia

kittynh said:
this little spot in the back on the right side...if I'm not looking at it upside down! It should be RED and on both sides. Oh well...blue is good too!
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Is it the side of the brain, the doctor says, is consistent with the side the child uses for creativity and pattern recognition?

Is she capable of doing reading properly, with apparently only one side of the brain? OR is she struggling to go along?

If you cover up her left eye, which is connected to the right brain, and require her to do reading with only her right eye. Does she do better or does she do worse? OR does refuse to read?
 
Chaos said:
I wonder, are there any brands of woo that claim to be able to heal dyslexia or autism?
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Rather a lot. Chelation appears to be the favirot amoung quacks dealing with autism right now but there is not shortage of diets and the like. I don't see so much for dyslexia at the moment.
 
Jyera said:
Is it the side of the brain, the doctor says, is consistent with the side the child uses for creativity and pattern recognition?

Is she capable of doing reading properly, with apparently only one side of the brain? OR is she struggling to go along?

If you cover up her left eye, which is connected to the right brain, and require her to do reading with only her right eye. Does she do better or does she do worse? OR does refuse to read?
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Snap! Exactly the questions I was leading to!
 
TragicMonkey said:
Tom Cruise credits Scientology for overcoming his dyslexia.

Too bad Scientology can't help with, you know, the madness.
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Hmmm...be rid of dyslexia, but in return, be completely insane just like Tom Cruise?

'Tain't wuth it!
 
My girlfriend is dyslexic and it gives her trouble with math. She has no trouble performing operations with numbers, but she tends to transcribe the numbers or just read them incorrectly (like mistakes a 5 for a 9). She says she used to have special math books where each numbers was highlighted a different color (like all 5's might be brown), kind of like reading a resistor. She said this seemed to help.

It's kind of funny getting directions from her. She will say, "turn left at the next light", but point to the right (I've found it is best to follow her arms instead of what she says).

LLH
 
I also have dyslexia. It's not too bad normally. Since I am a programmer any misplaced letters tend to cause problems. Since vocabulary of programming languages is limited and I always seem to make the same mistakes, I wrote a little spell checker to correct my problem.
 
My son is dyslexic, although clearly not as severly as Kitty's daughter. He is a slow reader, although improving. He cannot spell much at all, due to his lack of phonemic awareness. It also seems to give him problems with planning multi-step tasks.

My daughter has a problem with noun recall, which also pretty much trashed her math ability. We are working on that intensively. She has no trouble reading or spelling. And she has perfect pitch, much to the delight of my wife.

These are all our children and we love them just because.

~~ Paul
 
Yale has tried all sorts of cool things with her. Eye patches and all.

The problem with her is that there is just too little activity. It's like a very weak muscle, trying to do what needs 2 strong muscles.

We are doing a lot of the training other parts of the brain to take over. this is by getting her to read ANYTHING. So Nova Land sends her comics (short little quips, good), I get her every trashy girly magazine (want to know how to condition your hair?). It doesn't matter what she reads, so long as she reads.

I'm told how she is doing is almost a miracle (or hard work!). No other child with her limited abilities can read as well as she can. She is busy training on Dragonspeak for writing, since this will be a skill that probably will never be developed beyond the most basic of levels. She is classified by Yale as being "unable to learn to read" on their scale, but they were willing to help us anyway. We got good tutors and no one gave up, and today this girl can read. Kind of...the funny thing is that she recently tested at 98% comprehension but only read 2 out of every 3 words on the test. No clue how she does it!

Her new tutor is a professor at Landmark College. (THE MOST EXPENSIVE COLLEGE IN THE US!!!! YEAH NUMBER ONE!!!). the tutor likes to introduce her to other profs and educators there by holding up her brain scan....everyone goes "oooowwwwwww!!!!"

She herself has said that she would not change her dyslexia because dealing with it has made her who she is. Plus she said she has made friend with and met the most wonderful people who have helped her with her dyslexia.


I wouldn't trade her for most of the other teenage girls I see around. She's a skeptic too, and recently listed one of the highlights of her life as "Hugging Mr.Randi when he came to talk in Boston." Now that's some girl!

Oh and Paul's kids are the cat's pajamas. Really cute, and polite. They are such keepers!
 
LordoftheLeftHand said:
It's kind of funny getting directions from her. She will say, "turn left at the next light", but point to the right (I've found it is best to follow her arms instead of what she says).

LLH
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Snap again! That's me! If I'm giving driving directions myself, I'll point and get it right 100% of the time. But if I have to say the directions - right or left - I get it wrong about 50% of the time!

The effect in my brain is quite weird - I feel like I have to concentrate and "re-learn" right and left each time I have to say it. If I rush it, the result is random (i.e. 50%), but I can get it right properly if I can concentrate on it for a few seconds. It's sort of like tying to recall some long-forgotten memory each time...you remember it but only with effort.
 
Zep, I have some trouble with left and right, too. I remember left is first in alphabetical order, and the words are placed on the page in alphabetical order, so left will be first and right second. Since we read from left to right, that works.

~~ Paul
 
Kitty said:
Kind of...the funny thing is that she recently tested at 98% comprehension but only read 2 out of every 3 words on the test. No clue how she does it!
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At least 33% of the words in any document are superfluous!

At least 33% words in document superfluous!

~~ Paul
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Zep, I have some trouble with left and right, too. I remember left is first in alphabetical order, and the words are placed on the page in alphabetical order, so left will be first and right second. Since we read from left to right, that works.
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Good thing you are not an Arab.

Or Japanese.
 
Italians have the lowest rate of dyslexia.

I'm not sure if it is the language or what.

I considered teaching her Italian!
 
kittynh said:
I have a daughter with severe dyslexia.
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I still get the "You didn't talk to her enough as a baby...."

or

"What did you feed her when she was young? Did you let her have sugar?"

or

"You should have read her books." (I DID!)"
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These people deserve something that one can't ethically give them. Sheesh!

Speaking as a dyslexic-type person (no problem reading, massive problems with left/right and let's not talk about handwriting. keyboards put the letters the right way and move the curser the right way, which is a vast improvement, but we all know about my spelling), that's just deeply offensive.

Speaking as the parent of a person who is so much like me as to be frightening in some respects (and female) this kind of stuff really peeves me.

I have heard from teachers "I don't think she's trying", and a lot of other stuff. In NJ she was classified for writing only (after a battle that was required to get across the point that reading was not impaired, which we initially lost, and for which she read her "500 pages for the year" in a week, in an adult novel instead of the kiddie books, and for which they caved in after being confronted with that). Here, they say "she doesn't do badly enough", so of course her grades in courses she's good at suffer at the hands of handwriting. :(
 
Paul C. Anagnostopoulos said:
Zep, I have some trouble with left and right, too. I remember left is first in alphabetical order, and the words are placed on the page in alphabetical order, so left will be first and right second. Since we read from left to right, that works.

~~ Paul
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Well, I know that problem, as well. I simply draw a map. It will be right. Pay no attention to my "right" and "left" statements. Please. :)

And I remember in school when they told me "hold up your hands with the thumbs out, your left hand is the one that makes the 'l'".

Riiiiight. Err, that's called "lady, you just don't get it. I see two of them, not zero."
 
Claus said:
Good thing you are not an Arab.

Or Japanese.
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Maybe I'd be lucky and the words for left and right would work out in the other direction. One can hope.

~~ Paul

Edited to add: How does one alphabetize Japanese?
 
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jj said:
I have heard from teachers "I don't think she's trying", and a lot of other stuff. In NJ she was classified for writing only (after a battle that was required to get across the point that reading was not impaired, which we initially lost, and for which she read her "500 pages for the year" in a week, in an adult novel instead of the kiddie books, and for which they caved in after being confronted with that). Here, they say "she doesn't do badly enough", so of course her grades in courses she's good at suffer at the hands of handwriting.
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I presume that's not just because they take off points for bad handwriting, right? It's because her handwriting is so bad the teachers can't read it, right?

If I'm right, then ask them to provide a scribe for handwriting-intensive tests.

~~ Paul
 
My daughter gets academic support. When ever she has a test she can leave her class and take the test with support in a special lab they have for the LD kids. She's getting an A plus in her one mainstream class. this is a problem...

One thing they brought up is "what if the other parents also want their kids to take their tests with help?" Sort of, if they find out she got an A plus, they'll ALL want academic support! Huh? The whole point is that if it WORKS, then you have to take it away...

It's that whole A plus, I'm going to ask the teacher to just make it an A minus. Or a B plus. Because A plus just means she doesn't need it.

It wouldn't have anything to do with her private tutor I pay for, or the fact that she covered all this material last year in MIddle School.
 
Can you have minor dyslexia? Ive always been a terrible speller. I always thought I had some undiagnosed duslexia.
 
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