Dyslexia, I know that it affects the way people read and write, but what about the way they think?
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Good question. I'm curious to see some of the answers myself. I 'outgrew' my dyslexia, but I still have some problems, and I have been curious if they are related. I am terrible at math for one, I still do have some problems reading, usually only when I read out loud. When I go to jot down a phone number I will sometimes mix up the numbers. (write down the last bit backwards, or inverted). Sometimes I don't seem to make sense to people, it sounds right in my head, but I have a hard time getting my point across. I feel like maybe their is a short circuit somewhere, and things get mixed up and backward on the way out.
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Same for me. It's difficult to read a book, articles, magazines and understand, to really grasp every word and sentence. But whenever i had to read something in school it took me a long time to get thought it, but i had no choice. I'm inpatient about it and it's hard to concentrate. Some things are harder to read than others. But right now I'm trying to read something I'm interested in and that's good cause reading something i don't like in the least in hell. I don't know what the problem is. I'm tired right now, so that probably doesn't help, but even in regular basis it's difficult for me to read. Assuming you have the same problem, I'm sorry but i don't know the answer to this except that i understand your difficulty and you asked if anyone had this problem too. :)
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I was diagnosed dyslexic in kindergarten.  I tend to go over things multiple time since I was told, being dyslexic, we need to be hear something 1000 times before it makes sense.  I study in a room with no distractions, outline, make vocab lists, and have a study buddy.  I try to study and take tests when I'm the most awake since I'll transpose numbers and letters if I'm too tired.\n\nEdit:  Also contact your school's ADA (Adaptive Service Advisor) for assistance.
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Good question. Also is the effect of alphabet-ti spaghetti lost on dyslexics??????????
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Many MANY highly intellligent people have dyslexia!!! There are sevreal ways to help yourself learn to live wwith it. Only a rally shallow person would think anything negative about this illness. But from life lessons -- my baby bro & husband & best friend have it -- She is a web designer and makes tons of $$$, my husband is an AC man who owns his own company -- and my little bro is one of the best Jack of all trades you could ask for!!! People should not think anything about a person who has Dyslexia -- this is SO SO common! Even the CEO & Pres of my company have this!!! BE PROUD OF WHO YOU ARE -- and how much you can overcome!!!!
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Yes, this is very interesting. This was discovered at Cambridge University, it is because the human mind reads each word as a whole, instead of each individual letter. That is why we can still read it. Neat huh?
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If you believe in reading minds, and many will slam you for such a belief as you have no doubt seen, then anything is possible.\n\nHowever if you cannot read or write i believe it would have no effect on whether or not you could read minds. The thoughts would be in your mind more as a voice than written words, so it would pose little hindrance to you.\n\nP.S. never stop believing just because the narrowminded tell you you're wrong. The unenlightened will always try to keep the rest of us down.
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What a bunch of jerks people can be (except the posting just before mine...hi, Annie...good recommendation)!\n\nAnyway... someone who is "dyslexic" is someone with normal or high levels of intelligence (able to catch on to ideas, do hands-on activities, etc. well), who has trouble acquiring print skills. For various reasons, print symbols just don't make natural or instinctive sense for some people. Unfortunately, we now live in a print-reliant society. Print skills are more greatly valued than at any other time in history. So....\n\nIf you don't catch on instinctively to all the phonics rules (e.g. the three different sounds of s, the different ways to spell the long I sound, the five different sounds of "ough," etc.)... if you don't automatically recongize words when you see them, but have to go letter by letter even after years of practice... if you have trouble remembering what you just read, and have to re-read often... \n\nThen you should (as Annie recommended) see an Educational Psychologist or a certified Diagnostician to be tested for a Specific Learning Disability. Being diagnosed opens doors to specialized programs that can help you learn to be more efficient in your attack skills for print. Just because you are not an "insticutal" reader, doesn't mean you can't learn to be a fluent reader. That's why we have the special programs we do in the public schools (given an appropriately trained teacher....).
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This is a difficult question to answer because the data would be hard to find.  If by "reading problems" you mean dyslexia, etc., there is no way you're going to find an answer.  People, especially adults, with such problems will not be eager to admit to the problem.  If by "reading problems" you mean illiteracy, US's illiteracy rate is about 1-2% (along with most other industrialized countries).\n\nYou can get pretty high up, too, with reading problems.  Check out this article from last November: http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/11/news/profile.php\nHead coach of the Montreal Canadians admitted to being illiterate.
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Wow, your doctor is full of shit. Just, wow.\n\nDyslexia doesn't make sense for the inability to focus. A simple test: bdqp. What does that say? If you can read that and know which sequence it is, you aren't even dyslexic in the right way to effect reading at all. You could have a problem called ADD, or you could have a combination of the two like I did. ADD means you can't focus and get easily distracted, among other things:\n\nScan these:\nhttp://www.webmd.com/diseases_and_conditions/add_adhd.htm\nhttp://borntoexplore.org/whatisadd.htm\n\nThere is no easy way to deal with ADD, other than learning to cope. For the dyslexia, I just had to grow out of it (but still confuse right and left once in a while) I still don't study well unless I retreat to someplace quiet where there are practically no distractions, like a library. Ritalin is one solution, but you may or may not like its effects. My brother took the stuff and it didn't do a damn thing, but it helps some people.\n\nThe only plus side is that you will probably make a good scientist or engineer or artist anything where you need visualization skills. I can't do abstract math, but with a physics problem where there is something to visualize I am faster than blue blazes. I also do photography well enough to get recognized as art, although I lack the coordination or patience for drawing by hand. I can also think in five dimensions, but I haven't found a use. Perhaps you will be an architect or a sculptor? Thomas Edison was probably ADD too.\n\nRemember the trick about going to a library or something to study!
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I have often seen these mistakes go unchecked by the teachers at my daughter's school. When I asked why, I was told that the thoughts and emotions being expressed were more important than the manner in which they were expressed. I disagree. I cannot take a person seriously if they cannot spell and punctuate. I'm afraid I automatically assume they are stupid. Sorry!
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dear tia-alld,  The blame is to be put any where. You son may have a disability such as ADD, ADHD or most likely Dyslexia.  Dyslexia as many forms, and just recently a co-worker and I came across the same thing. Out of all the dyslexia cases on file, only one out of every two to three thousand people end up with this condition.  In the school setting ask the teachers to try using different color chalks, or putting homework on color paper.  The condition is referred to as "black on white". and there are several sites on the internet that talk about absents of color in learning.  Another great tool are color overlays.  You can get these any where and all they are, are colored clear platic sheets a student would place over their work to change the back ground of the paper. \nEither way talk to your son any try to learn if when he looks a the chalk board does the writting look funny or strange.  A very good first sign.  If so have him checked by your local doctor and explain what you know and ask for special testing.  None of this type testing is advasive to a child, in fact it seem rather fun. (seminar experience).  Either way don't give up.  By the way I failed to mention I Have been working with children and young adults with special needs, disabilities for over four years now.  P.S. please forgive my spelling errors and grammer, some days are very long.  Hope I hepled.
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Left brain's focused attention combined with the right brain's peripheral attention, in close harmony. Good communication between the brain hemispheres is a pre-requisite for creative thinking and also a sense of wellbeing, where thoughts and feelings are integrated.\n\nRecently researches were carried out in the United States to determine the difference between a left-brain reader and a right-brain reader. A special apparatus was constructed, consisting of a television screen to present the reading material, with a cursor that the subject had to fixate upon. Eye movements were monitored electronically, so the cursor would move when the subject moved his eyes. The equipment could be set up in two modes. In the first mode, material to the left of the cursor would blank out on the screen, if the subject attempted to move his fixation point to the right of the cursor. In the second mode, material to the right of the cursor would blank out, if the subject attempted to move his fixation point to the left of the cursor.\nIn the first (left-brain) mode, when words to the left of the cursor blanked out, preventing the subject from regressing or back-skipping, this duplicated the habitual pattern of a left-brain reader, who always reads one or more words ahead of a particular fixation point. In the second (right-brain) mode, when words to the right of the cursor blanked out, preventing the subject from anticipating by reading one or two words ahead of the fixation point, this duplicated the habitual pattern of a right-brain reader, who tends to re-read the words leading up to a particular fixation point.
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What Is Dyslexia \nWhat Is Dyslexia ... Academic Interventions for Children with Dyslexia. Atypical Brain Activity Detected In People With Dyslexia ...www.kidsource.com/kidsource/content3/dyslexia.html - 18k - Cached - More from this site \nDyslexia Information Page: National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) \nDyslexia information sheet compiled by the National Institute of Neurological ... characteristics among people with dyslexia are difficulty with phonological ...www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/dyslexia/dyslexia.htm - 19k - Cached - More from this site \nWikipedia: Dyslexia \nDevelopmental dyslexia is a said to be a condition or learning ... Others have questioned whether dyslexia is no more than a mythological construct ...\nQuick Links: Dyslexia International definitions. - Biological Bases of Dyslexia - Variations and related disorders\nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia - 74k - Cached - More from this site \nDyslexia - Healthy Kids and Pediatrics - health and medical information produced by doctors \n... AIDS awareness, allergies and asthma, attention deficit disorders and dyslexia. ... Home > Diseases & Conditions A-Z List > Healthy Kids Home Page > Dyslexia ...www.medicinenet.com/dyslexia/article.htm
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Dyslexic people often have high IQ's but the brain does not work properly when decoding text or numbers.  Before dyslexia became so widely recognised there used to be a lot of stigma attached to it. Pupils who struggled with reading and spelling were written off and deemed as thick. This was the case thrity years ago when I was growing up.\n\nAccording to the dyslexia institute: Dyslexia affects all kinds of people regardless of intelligence, race or social class. The effects of dyslexia can largely be overcome by skilled specialist teaching and the use of compensatory strategies.  The earlier the intervention the better the outcome.
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I am so glad someone else mentioned this!  I think it's terrible the way some people spell and the grammar they use. It just makes you wonder:  What did they learn in school?  Spell check works sometimes, but not for everything. A majority of the words that are misspelled are not difficult words, either - just ordinary, everyday words!
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I am Like that, tell me the best answer, J/K. I'm not trying to make fun of you but by the way you write it seems like if you might have dyslexia. I think I have that sometimes. let me tell you my problem. I read but i read subconciously, my mouth says the words yet my mind thinks of something/someone else. when I read and find out i was daydreaming, i notice that I have read a whole paragraph and I KNOW that paragraph didn't have anything about X-Men or pokemon...i subconciously think while reading. I think music does help but not the songs with lyrics. and have the music low. \nhave a specific time to study and homework. I will try to take my own advise.