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Dyslexia is specifically related to difficulty processing sequences; the symptoms are fairly specific, and have an obvious underlying mechanism, even if we don'
by Robin_Message 8y ago
Dyslexia is specifically related to difficulty processing sequences; the symptoms are fairly specific, and have an obvious underlying mechanism, even if we don't understand what that mechanism is yet. It's not just difficulty learning to read.
- iguy 8y agoOK, don't know too much about it, don't mean to open another can of worms! But we seem to have difficulty even discerning the best ways to teach normal kids to read. Hence my skepticism that our interventions for something specific could be so well-understood that starting the intervention when we had the genetic test (rather than waiting for the classroom) would matter.
- Robin_Message 8y agoThat is a very fair point. Teaching in the UK at least seems quite faddish. At the moment, pre-teen children are taught extensive vocabulary to talk about how English is constructed. They are taught terms like "split diagraph", which sound liguistic, but aren't terms actually used by linguists!
- iguy 8y agoRight! And don't they try to teach them to read at 4, while the Finns wait until 7, or something? The state of knowledge about what works best seems pretty poor.