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As someone who was diagnosed with dyslexia, and went to a special school because of it, a lot of things in this article brought back memories. I'm unsure how o
by MivLives 6y ago
As someone who was diagnosed with dyslexia, and went to a special school because of it, a lot of things in this article brought back memories.
I'm unsure how others are taught to read or spell, but the school I went to used an almost extended alphabet. Where combinations of english letters like CH were taught as if they were the roots of spelling.
It did seem to work I went from three grades under my reading level to three grades over in one year.
Effects linger on, the feeling of wanting to use a word I can't spell, unintentionally mispronouncing words, and the inability to understand a word from spoken letters("L-I-K-E-T-H-I-S") are all things I deal with.
I was lucky to be born when I was, as computers entered the picture while in middle school. Spell check, text to speech, and text based communication via IM all contributed to getting my writing skills to their current level. The removal of stress from having to spell freed mental capacity for me to just worry about the actual content instead.
- mc32 6y agoI don’t believe I have dyslexia but I have the hardest time mentally (air spelling) multisyllabic words. Something like “Dinosaur”. But jotting it down is no problem.
- auto 6y agoI was always a strong reader as a kid and have never had issues with spelling, or anything that would hint at dyslexia, but the spoken letter things is one of (in my opinion) my greatest weaknesses. I'm super visual and consider myself to have a really strong "minds eye", but for some reason the moment people start spelling something out loud, it's just mush. I've thought about it so much in recent years that I've considered just practicing with videos or a writing a program to do it to see if it's something I can eradicate.
- Tyr42 6y agoYeah I have a similar inability to put together a word from letters being spoken to me. I'm also really bad at anagrams (and by extension, scrabble). I always wondered if those were related.
- wombatmobile 6y ago> I was lucky to be born when I was, as computers entered the picture while in middle school. It makes sense that you felt relieved when computers could compensate for your reading difficulties by reading and spelling for you. On a different track, do you know of any computer based learning applications for teaching dyslexic diagnosed people to improve their reading and/or spelling abilities? The article seemed to say that there isn't a magic method, which probably explains why the contentious debates reported in the article exist. But it also says that those who get into the program do improve their abilities, through more intense teacher led instruction. I'm wondering if this form of instruction been automated at all? Could it be? What is the state of the art of literacy education software?
- gonzo41 6y agoI'm dyslexic and my learning to read happened in a burst from ages 11 to 13. I got a lot of extra attention at school which was mostly around drilling phonics, like shhh sounds with ti, si, ci. And learning strategies on decomposing words. One one of the really impactful things I did that contributed to large improvements in my reading and spelling was working on a computer based system. It had you type words that you watched change color on screen whilst TTS spoke the word back to you. This was combining fine motor control, visual perception and hearing into all into how I was learning. It was a game changer for me. At the time, mid nineties this would have been pretty cutting edge software in the education world. I'm not sure what things are like now but I was thinking about it the other day just how lucky i was with that.
- scotty79 6y agoI think a lot of reading difficulties could have been alleviated if teachers just abandoned prejudice against phonics.