Comments | memegarden: Today I fixed someone's dyslexia.

memegarden

Today I fixed someone's dyslexia.

Feb 10, 2009 16:44

Well, I've been fixing his dyslexia for the past year and a half, by means of teaching him the sounds of letters & letter combinations, and the specific skills of putting them together, and the necessary phonetically irregular sight words, and how to read fluently once he's got the words--in other words, by teaching him to read, despite his ( Read more... )

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spinningfire February 11 2009, 01:27:11 UTC

wow!

Thank you for sharing.

I always thought dyslexia was only a problem from a certain angle...

morwensdoor February 11 2009, 02:45:39 UTC

Wow, that's pretty cool. I'll make a note to check that book out (and recommend it to the several other tutors in my life!)

jehannamama February 11 2009, 02:59:57 UTC

that's awesome!

ariadne3 February 11 2009, 05:45:30 UTC

I've heard of (and from) folks who say that when they see a word or a letter, they see it in all of its possible orientations: frontwards, backwards, flipped in any possible direction from the center, almost as though it is a three-dimensional object. I'll have to find that book later on, when I've got a little more time in my life for leisure reading ( ... )

memegarden February 11 2009, 05:58:18 UTC

That is precisely what The Gift of Dyslexia describes.

The beer bottle exercise sounds like a fun one for working on making concrete, vivid visualizations. I don't think it's well suited to my purposes, though...what I'm doing with the piece of cake (in his hand) is orienting my student so his imagined viewpoint is in line with his physical viewpoint, and that requires a fixed-position object associated with his current position. From inside a moving bottle, he wouldn't be able to see his own position at all well.

ariadne3 February 11 2009, 06:00:45 UTC

Got it. Kind of opposite goals, those. Mmm, not opposite. Not the same, though.
Definitely will put that book on my to read list.

ocicat February 11 2009, 06:10:33 UTC

So I'm dyslexic - I think we've gone over that. I have indeed found it to be a talent, and the disadvantages pretty easily overcome.

My visualization technique was often to picture an image of outline of the USA. For some reason I never reversed maps in my head. So when facing a blank page I was supposed to write on, or a string of numbers that I couldn't figure out which end was supposed to be the beginning... I'd superimpose the USA over it, and know I should start on the west coast.

The mind is a funny thing.

I still have trouble with rotations, sometimes. "Turn it to the left" is a useless statement to me. Clockwise and counterclockwise work okay most the time.

memegarden February 11 2009, 23:53:42 UTC

I like the map tactic. That sounds like a helpful one, for anyone who can keep maps straight!