A coworker of mine tells me she always writes m's upside down as w's and vice versa.  I'm familiar with dyslexia, but this is like upside down dyslexia.  I've tried to research this but have found nothing.  Is anyone familiar with this problem or know why someone would write letters upside down accidentally?
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Look at this:  \n\nM = /&#92;/&#92;\n\nW = &#92;/&#92;/\n\nnow... what does it take to turn an M into a W?\n/&#92;/&#92; ~> /&#92;/ ~> &#92;/&#92;/\n\nThe point is, it's pretty close to being the same letter, so in times of lapsed concentration, it's easy for your hand to forget which letter it's writing.  What's funny is when people type out completely different words than the ones they were thinking.  It's Freudian.  Like if you're used to typing out "what the hell?" every single day but today you decide you're going to type "what the hole", and your fingers bypass the hole and go straight to hell.
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Thank You!  I thought I was going crazy.  The same exact thing happens to me when I use spell check.  If it finds a word that is misspelled,and you change it, it doesn't change the word, but some other word and messes up the text. I don't use it anymore, I have a link to www.dictionary.com on my toolbar now.
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If he DOES NOT "see" the letters correctly, that is NOT just dyslexia. It is probably because he also needs visual therapy through an occupational therapist and/or vision specialist. Ask a local OT working with the public schools about who they recommend for the diagnosis and therapy plan (usually an opthamologist, but not every opthamologist has the correct training for this).\n\nhttp://www.vision-therapy.com/About_Vision.htm\n\nhttp://www.memorialhospital.org/OccupationalTherapy.htm\n\nhttp://www.hollywoodvision.com/html/vision_therapy.html\n\nHere are some simple activities for you to do while you are waiting on the diagnosis and therapy plan:\nhttp://www.turningpointtechnology.com/Software/TF/Eye%20Track%20Software.htm\n\nContinue to provide phonics instruction. If you have the proper training for LD phonics remediation, you also know that there is a developmental "click" or "leap" that occurs. The constant exposure to phonics means that he'll suddenly be able to apply it, and show a huge gain in his reading level over only a couple of months, WHEN HE IS READY PHYSIOLOGICALLY.\n\nIf he is having vision issues, teach him the phonics rules through oral recitiation while you do the exercises the OT or vision specialist give you. Don't forget to keep building on his knowledge, starting with "vowel plus consonant is short," all the way up to the three sounds of "s", the five sounds of "ough," etc., even if he's not visually perceiving the letters at that point. Take it slow... the more advanced rules may not be something you hit until next year.\n\nYou should also have him play "catch" with you (start with a soft, larger ball like a kickball), do very simple (preschool) mazes and gradually work up in difficulty (VERY gradually), etc. My guess is that when he attempts a maze, he can't make heads or tails of it right now.
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It's called a palindrome. : )\nP.S. this is interesting... an ambigram can be read upside down and right side up. An example is ipod! . Tilt your head upside down and see what I mean... Hope this helps!
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Duh! All keyboards have the 2 and @ on the same key, same with ' and "! It's suposed to be like that!
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this may sound weird but tell them to read backwards...literally.  My mom had a student who was highly dyslexic but when she told him to read from the back of a sentence he read it perfectly.
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¡Hola!\n\nTo make the upside down exclamation point, hold down Alt, Ctrl, Shift and hit 1 \n\nI can only get it to work in MSWord, not online, though (I copied and pasted from Word for the one above)--wonder why?
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Woah, that's a tough one. Is it from an IQ test perhaps?\n\nI haven't solved it but would suggest that we think in terms of those letters being the first letter of items in a list that we would normally know the order of.  Such as JFMAMJJASOND being the months of the year. I don't believe the order has to do with their position in the alphabet.\n\nPLEASE let us know if you get the answer!
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the alphabet backwards
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I actually have heard of such programs. However I think it was a word program for word perfect. Someone told me when they told it to type something, it typed things all funky, because it didn't understand what she was saying. \nI am sure there is something of this nature for those people are not able to type. Keep looking, I am sure you will find it!
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Yea, I heard about this on our local news cast, that you all want to "sue" everyone using the "W" as your official logo...\n\nBut, I wont help you because you dont OWN the 'W'... (How can some one own an alphabet letter!)...\n\nTrade Mark infringement?  Baloney!  Schools around here have been using the "W" for a very long time...(a lot longer than that silly trademark you people tried to get away with)...\n\nSorry, wont help you on that one!\n\nI wish you well..\n\nJesse
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Yes, I can read it. It says:\nDid you know that the human brain can read a word withough the letters being in order? It's cool isn't it? I got an e-mail about this and could actually read it! If you can read this, then what does it say?
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This could be dyslexia. It also sounds as if you might have an attention problem.  I would need to know your age.  You could try a colored overlay to help with the words getting switched out of order.  This really seems to help some people. (a colored overlay is simply a tranparent,colored, very thin sheet of plastic that you actually lay over your reading) Have you ever had any educational testing for a learning disability? By the way, having a LD is NOTHING TO BE ASHAMED OF.  Many people think that if someone is LD, they are not very bright- this is not true. Wish I could help you.  Good luck and try a colored overlay.  (different colors work for different folks)
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Could it be that they're using Eng (US) rather than Eng (UK)?  Being a Brit, I'd write "misspelt" rather than "misspelled" - but this wouldn't be incorrect.  I think we all have our favourite (favorite?) hates in written English, but we mustn't let this affect our blood pressure!
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Incorrectly spelled text is difficult to understand.\nFor instance, take l33t sp34k for example.\n\nS4V3 j00r Pr3F3r3N(3z W|-|3N pH1N15H3D 4ND r3TURN 2 534RC|-|.\n\nYou can probably figure out with this says, but it will take you a while if you are not familiar with leet speak.\nWhen people encounter misspelled words, it takes longer to figure out what you are trying to say, and is annoying. People who are annoyed, generally are rude.\n\nFor more leet speak, try this:
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Maybe by alphabete they only count "different" ones. I mean, N and n are basically the same. There's no point going over the same letter twice.
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what ? \n\nyou mean why is it 2U(doube u) instead of 2V(double V) ?\n\nWell, because DoubleU goes back to the time when they wrote everything in cursive. And when you write a W in cursive, it doesn't look anything like 2 V's