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Dyslexia
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:57 pm
by moi621 (imported)
Dyslexia, what is it like? Having not been a normal reader, who knows? I do not see letters backwards and I think I found an analogy.
My father could speak five languages fluently and perfectly as I was told. He did not like to hear accents and believed in speaking as a native. He could no doubt think in those languages.
I studied French for four years and German for two years. I never could think in another language, I always had to translate and work it in English. Even while in France I would mentally search for a memorized phrase nearest what I wanted to communicate and change the line accordingly. Or go word, by word.
When I read, I have to "hear" the word as if spoken. I can read no faster then I can hear a spoken word.
So like a foreign language, I have to work the written word through the spoken word to get it.
Does that sound familiar to anyone? I believe there are people out there who are fluent in the written word, I am not.
Dyslexia is usually associated with other soft neurological signs such as hyperactivity and attention span problems.
Hard neurological signs are like you can't move something. Hard signs are easily observable and indicative to specific neuroanatomy health.
Sharing appreciated.
Moi
It gets better in early adulthood then deteriorates to the familiar demons in older age.
Re: Dyslexia
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:31 pm
by transward (imported)
moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:57 pm
Dyslexia, what is it like? Having not been a normal reader, who knows? I do not see letters backwards and I think I found an analogy.
My father could speak five languages fluently and perfectly as I was told. He did not like to hear accents and believed in speaking as a native. He could no doubt think in those languages.
I studied French for four years and German for two years. I never could think in another language, I always had to translate and work it in English. Even while in France I would mentally search for a memorized phrase nearest what I wanted to communicate and change the line accordingly. Or go word, by word.
When I read, I have to "hear" the word as if spoken. I can read no faster then I can hear a spoken word.
So like a foreign language, I have to work the written word through the spoken word to get it.
Does that sound familiar to anyone? I believe there are people out there who are fluent in the written word, I am not.
Dyslexia is usually associated with other soft neurological signs such as hyperactivity and attention span problems.
Hard neurological signs are like you can't move something. Hard signs are easily observable and indicative to specific neuroanatomy health.
Sharing appreciated.
Moi
It gets better in early adulthood then deteriorates to the familiar demons in older age.
That you achieved the professional degree you have would indicate that it does not affect intelligence. That you got through the reading required for that degree, reading at the speed you describe is amazing.
Transward
Re: Dyslexia
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:51 pm
by moi621 (imported)
transward (imported) wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:31 pm
That you achieved the professional degree you have would indicate that it does not affect intelligence. That you got through the reading required for that degree, reading at the speed you describe is amazing.
Transward
Luckily, my school's professors were the authors of one of the first synopsis textbook series. Lange Publications.
Talk about luck!
Moi
Re: Dyslexia
Posted: Tue Jul 12, 2011 10:33 pm
by Kortpeel (imported)
moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:57 pm
My father could speak five languages fluently and perfectly as I was told. He did not like to hear accents and believed in speaking as a native. He could no doubt think in those languages.
I studied French for four years and German for two years. I never could think in another language, I always had to translate and work it in English. Even while in France I would mentally search for a memorized phrase nearest what I wanted to communicate and change the line accordingly. Or go word, by word.
When I read, I have to "hear" the word as if spoken. I can read no faster then I can hear a spoken word.
So like a foreign language, I have to work the written word through the spoken word to get it.
Does that sound familiar to anyone? I believe there are people out there who are fluent in the written word, I am not.
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Interesting. For myself I can read and write more easily than I can speak and hear. I have always had trouble hearing (or interpreting) the spoken word when there is any background noise.
Regarding languages, linguists tell us that almost any child can learn a language just from being around it when it is spoken. This ability ceases at puberty. I have a theory that the part of a the brain that deals with language learning switches over to matters relating to sex when the child reaches puberty.
This theory could be tested if a person who was castrated prior to puberty continued with this childhood language learning ability in later life. Anyone?
If Moi's dad
moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Jul 09, 2011 5:57 pm
could speak five languages fluently
my guess is that he grew up in Eastern Europe and heard five languages spoken around him. However to learn a language in later life and speak it without his home language coloring his pronunciation is an awesome achievement.