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"Dyslexia is characterized by difficulty with LEARNING to read fluently". You may have read it, but you didn't understand it!
by richrichardsson 9y ago
"Dyslexia is characterized by difficulty with LEARNING to read fluently".
You may have read it, but you didn't understand it!
- Cthulhu_ 9y agoThat's the crux of the matter IMO, most people reading this page already learned how to read; the brain takes shortcuts in recognising words (like the garbled inner part of words as another commenter mentioned). But if your brain isn't able to develop those shortcuts (due to dyslexia), yeah. Try teaching a child to read with a page like this.
- walshemj 9y agoErr not all dyslexics have problems with reading I am Dyslexic and had a reading age of 20 at 11 :-) Writing and spelling however I am very bad at
- konart 9y agoI'm pretty sure that title was changed since the original posting. The original one was something like: "Try to read it". That's pretty much it.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoThat's seriously not true for folks with mild dyslexia. That's why folks don't necessarily find out until adults: no actual difficulty learning to read, but sometimes it results in weird things that weren't picked up on when we were kids. Spelling, for example. Getting left and right mixed up. Certain behavioral traits. More trouble with reading as one gets older and has more to read and/or difficult texts.
- danellis 9y agoFunny thing: I keep getting left and right mixed up since I moved from the UK to the US. It's as though my subconscious understanding of "left" was always "the side cars drive on". Flipping that also flipped the words in my head.
- Broken_Hippo 9y agoThat is quite funny. I'm pretty glad I didn't suddenly get that when I switched countries. Of course, I switched up the two before I did so. I learned to feel for my heartbeat on my left side to tell them apart.