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Dyslexia

sounds a bit like Temple Grandin, which may mean he has some autism or ASpergers syndrome...

a lot of people are labelled "dyslexic" when they have other types of LD.

Oh, and no matter how your brain works, reading Temple Grandins book, "Seeing in Pictures" is well worth your time (or getting it on books on tape)
 
Wow, I thought I was the only one who had trouble remembering "right/left".

It is quite embarrassing to be told to raise your right hand and raise your left. I've gotten a lot better about it, though... I thought in terms of the left/right shoulder buttons on the Super Nintendo controller and that seemed to make my retrieval from memory a -lot- faster.

I think when under a lot of stress I can't remember my left and right, though.

I don't have any problems driving.
 
Thought this might be of interest.

Just picked up a murder mystery (Earth Colors by Sarah Andrews) at the library the other day. The book was OK, but what was really interesting was finding out that the author was also a geologist, artist and a licensed pilot -- and has dyslexia. In her author's note to the book, here's what she had to say:

I was born with the talent for four dimensional thinking (a geologist thinks in the three-dimensions of space and projects it forwards and backwards through time. My dyslexia, or trouble decoding linear/sequential text, is on the flip side of being able to take in discontinuous -- often ambiguous -- data in random order and build space-time models from it. Not a bad trade if you ask me).
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Her web site is www.sarahandrews.net
 
My daughter and I both have mild dyslexia but we are both good a 3d thinking.

The only problems I have encountered is in my writing and spelling especially on the threads the say god does not exist. I know he exist, I walk him twice a day and feed him every night.
 
farrisjs said:
My daughter and I both have mild dyslexia but we are both good a 3d thinking.

The only problems I have encountered is in my writing and spelling especially on the threads the say god does not exist. I know he exist, I walk him twice a day and feed him every night.
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I'm sorry! I'm going to steal that line!

My atheist dyslexic daughter is so going to LOVE it!

Hey, you are new here, but you are GOOD!
 
bruto said:
On the left-right driving issue, my wife also has trouble with left and right, as well as up and down, at least where language is concerned, but this has nothing to do with an inability to keep to the correct side of the road, nor does she drive upside down. She's never had an accident, either. In her case, it's more an issue of English being a second language than of any identifiable dyslexia, and though she "lost her accent" many years ago, she still gets directions mixed up.
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Being an English-as-second-language person myself, I can relate to that. (Also happends with lower case d's and b's ("bird" is a useful word in this case) and geographical directions.) It's something about getting the word out. I can point it out, but not call on it immidiately.
 
farrisjs said:
The only problems I have encountered is in my writing and spelling especially on the threads the say god does not exist. I know he exist, I walk him twice a day and feed him every night.
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OK, so they say you shouldn't attempt humor in a new culture and I'm thinking that's probably true of a new poster as well. But I can't help it:

What do you get with someone who's an insomniac, agnostic and dyslexic?

A person who lays awake at night, wondering if there really is a Dog!

Thanks, especially kitty, for a fascinating thread. And LA's description of her mom turning books upside down caused momentary but very real waterworks.

Ferd
 
"Sure, you can. Don't you recognize the SkepticReport logo?"- CFLarsen.

This is actually quite funny. I read this response, and had not the slightest idea what Claus meant.
Now ferd has bumped the thread. I'm on a new pc at work , on which I have not yet bothered to turn avatars off, as I generally do.

I still didn't know what he meant, until I actually looked at the triangle Avatar he uses, which does indeed say "Skeptic Report" on it.

So, that would be a "no!"
 
Soapy Sam said:
"Sure, you can. Don't you recognize the SkepticReport logo?"- CFLarsen.

This is actually quite funny. I read this response, and had not the slightest idea what Claus meant.
Now ferd has bumped the thread. I'm on a new pc at work , on which I have not yet bothered to turn avatars off, as I generally do.

I still didn't know what he meant, until I actually looked at the triangle Avatar he uses, which does indeed say "Skeptic Report" on it.

So, that would be a "no!"
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The logo doesn't have "SkepticReport" in it. But...I can't say any more right now. You just wait... ;)
 
ferd burfle said:
OK, so they say you shouldn't attempt humor in a new culture and I'm thinking that's probably true of a new poster as well. But I can't help it:

What do you get with someone who's an insomniac, agnostic and dyslexic?

A person who lays awake at night, wondering if there really is a Dog!

Thanks, especially kitty, for a fascinating thread. And LA's description of her mom turning books upside down caused momentary but very real waterworks.

Ferd
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Oh hun, don't cry over that. It's a great party and tutoring trick. Most of the time, if I'm stuck across the table from my student, I often don't have to make them turn their book around so I can read the relevant passage. :D
 
Yep, can do that too.

Claus, I had a photocopy of that Scientific American article on Dyslexia in my suitcase at TAM...and I forgot to give it to you! Guess all the strangling distracted me...

PM me a snailmail address if you seriously want it.
 
Zep said:
Yep, can do that too.

Claus, I had a photocopy of that Scientific American article on Dyslexia in my suitcase at TAM...and I forgot to give it to you! Guess all the strangling distracted me...
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Typical. Focusing on violence instead of evidence. Tsk, tsk.

Zep said:
PM me a snailmail address if you seriously want it.
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Don't you have scanners downundah?
 
I never had any trouble reading, but I always assumed everybody could read upside down as well as right-side up.
 
kittynh said:
I have a daughter with severe dyslexia. We are talking thousands of hours of tutoring since she was quite young, and we are thrilled she can "kind of" read enough to barely function in the real world. Forget school, books on tape and an intensive LD program (along with even more expensive private tutoring) will get her through that AND through college.

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!)

She has been down to Yale where important work is being done. There is now a gene that has been identified. I've seen the brain scans of my daughter that SHOW her brain works differently when attempting to read. So I'm familiar with the fact that she just IS this way.

I've also learned over the years that there is nothing wrong with her being this way. The differences in how her brain works may result in trouble reading and writing. But it has so many benefits also. She is a very creative thinker, and has a sense of empathy that I would not trade for making her "like everyone else". We need people with dyslexia. Walt Disney, Churchill, there are so many that has added so much to our lives, that I don't let her or myself think of this as a "problem" anymore. It's a pain, she STILL has to learn to read and write, because that is the way life it. But it is also a good thing.

here is the link to the latest "news". But the important part for me is at the end.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20051028/hl_hsn/researchersmayhavediscovereddyslexiagene

"Whether or not these findings translate into concrete gains for people with dyslexia, the research sends "a very important message to educators, parents and children, which is that you're not dumb. This isn't your fault. You're not a bad parent," Gruen said. "This is a transmitted difference in our gene that makes one person learn differently than another. That's all it is."
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I am dyslexic too, I have a BSc Hons and a Masters degree, my hand writing look like a five year olds.

Do you know about the work of John Stein and Tony Monaco, they think they have identified the chromosome which may give a predispotion to dyslexia, chromsome number 6.


http://www.physiol.ox.ac.uk/~jfs/

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/doc_WTD002846.html

I wish you and your child all hte best and remember:

Never give up Never surrender

Dyslexia has made my life tougher than most peoples, but it has also made me tougher than mpst people.
 
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