Journals of Lord Malinov

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details dyslexic

My theory of dyslexia is that when faced with a visual problem, like reading, and emotional stimuli, the dyslexic approaches the problem by unconsciously re-organizing the visual patterns in their interpretation of the visual data.

If a dyslexic looks at writing and doesn't understand at once, an impulsive tendency will begin to move the words and letters around, trying to make them make sense and generally rendering the writing meaningless.

This form of impulsive mental behavior could be very useful in solving visual problems - physical interaction, organization, space-relations.  Lousy for reading.

enjoy,

DC

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#1  07 April 2007 - 17:02

 

Lady Diana,

Your "theory of dyslexia" is the gist of Ron Davis' book titled The Gift of Dyslexia.

The book is very well written, but I have (fortunately) never needed to try out his method for learning to read and write. (Except to the extent that my kindergarten and first grade teachers taught using similar methods.)

You might want to check it out.

-- Jasper

Jasper

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