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Anger as Experts Claim Dyslexia is a Myth
The Guardian (UK) ^
| September 3, 2005
| Sophie Kirkham
Posted on 09/07/2005 10:40:01 PM PDT by anymouse
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To: Prime Choice; speedy; bitt; Joe 6-pack; NYTexan; hispanarepublicana; Victoria Delsoul; Liz; ...
I issue think some Freepers take will with article this.
I ping will my mesozoic fiends.
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posted on
09/07/2005 11:30:16 PM PDT
by
The Spirit Of Allegiance
(SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
To: anymouse
But the suggestion has angered many dyslexic people and dyslexia organisations, who say the argument is damaging and unhelpful. Dammit, I want to be a victim!
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posted on
09/07/2005 11:32:45 PM PDT
by
vbmoneyspender
(this is great! the only people I can offend are people who can't read my offensive comment)
To: anymouse
!tnemetats suolucidir a tahW
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posted on
09/07/2005 11:35:01 PM PDT
by
ZULU
(Fear the government which fears your guns. God, guts, and guns made America great.)
To: Blurblogger
I dno't konw waht yuo're tlaknig aobut. Ervyetinhg mdae pefrcet sesne to me.
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posted on
09/07/2005 11:39:09 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: ZULU
Hey! Who turned my keyboard umop episdn?
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posted on
09/07/2005 11:40:37 PM PDT
by
Prime Choice
(E=mc^3. Don't drink and derive.)
To: anymouse
The BBC never makes sense. Split it up into 5 or 6 parts and let those who pay the 'TV tax' decide which channel[s] to send their portion to.
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posted on
09/07/2005 11:49:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Leftism is the Cult of the Artificial)
To: msnimje
You think YOU got problems?
To: anymouse
Obviously these jerks have never dealt with it 1st hand.
I used to sell auto parts and when we changed over to computer inventory control I was screwing up hourly with the new part #'s, sometimes I would just get 1 or 2 digits swapped and other times I would flip the whole # backwards. It didn't help that we also went from Alphanumeric to numeric at the same time.
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posted on
09/07/2005 11:58:50 PM PDT
by
ChefKeith
( If Diplomacy worked, then we would be sitting here talking...)
To: clee1
I do the exact same thing; it has gotten slightly worse in the last few years. I also transpose letters when typing, sometimes whole words, and now occasionally I transpose words when actually speaking.
But the idea that I would have ever needed special ANYTHING is stoopid. Or stoodip.
:-)
I think it's brain damage from all the drugs I took long, long ago.
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posted on
09/08/2005 12:05:21 AM PDT
by
little jeremiah
(A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, are incompatible with freedom. P. Henry)
To: anymouse
Dyslexia? Naw....
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posted on
09/08/2005 12:27:12 AM PDT
by
Old Seadog
(Birthdays start out being fun. But too many of them will kill you..)
To: Blurblogger
I always thought you were a bit wardsback, Rebloggblur.
To: Larry Lucido
As far back as the fifties in 'Why Johnny Can't read and what you can do about it' Rudolf Flesch was saying that Whole Language Instruction is causing dyslexia. If you were taught with the see Jill run books then that was Whole Language or Sight Word Instruction.
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posted on
09/08/2005 1:17:14 AM PDT
by
ocos
To: anymouse
As an English and a reading instructor, I dealt with adults with poor reading skills and those with dyslexia. You can tell the difference.
It's a real problem for some people. You have to use coping strategies (and there are a number of them, like using blue paper, which seems to help).
A poor reader can improve his reading without those strategies, by working on rate, vocabulary and analytical reading skills. It's not that hard to teach.
This won't improve the real problems a dyslexic is having decoding words. It's not the same problem. I know dyslexics who have Ph.Ds - they still struggle with texts. They've learned ways to cope.
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posted on
09/08/2005 4:53:56 AM PDT
by
Knitting A Conundrum
(Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
To: anymouse
What this report does is relieve the government from having to deal with the problem........
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posted on
09/08/2005 4:56:45 AM PDT
by
mo
To: Larry Lucido
OLL! This theard is crakcing me up!
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:06:18 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Proud member of the 21st century Christian Crusaders)
To: anymouse
If you owned a herd of cattle, say a thousand head, and the local vet after inspecting your herd proclaimed that one out of every ten had a genetic disability, you would sell the entire herd to a feed lot and give up ranching!
1 in 10 Britons????? How the hell do these people even exist?????? Sounds like the entire cast from "Airplane"!
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:10:34 AM PDT
by
Doc Savage
(...because they stand on a wall, and they say nothing is going to hurt you tonight, not on my watch!)
To: clee1
There was an article posted here a while back, saying that dyslexia also affects the Chinese, but in a different part of the brain (undoubtedly because of the difference in writing systems).
That said, there are of course abuses. My sister used to work in the modern language department of a large university. The number of students who didn't like foreign languages who came to the office asking for an exemption from the language requirement because they were dyslexic (self-diagnosed!) was staggering.
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posted on
09/08/2005 5:15:50 AM PDT
by
maryz
To: anymouse
Ann Coulter has pretty much been saying the same thing for years (i.e., dismissing dyslexia as a convenient cover for "rich parents of dumb kids").
To: Blurblogger
Dyslexia is not something we should make pun of.
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posted on
09/08/2005 7:32:30 AM PDT
by
Rennes Templar
("The future ain't what it used to be".........Yogi Berra)
To: anymouse
I'm a dyslexic but I don't shiv a git.
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