Saturday, September 10, 2011

Review of "Dyslexia" by Sally E. Shaywitz

This article answered several important questions for me. Most important what is dyslexia, I mean really through the years I read or heard many very different defiintions. It is neuro-biological.  "It is a deficiency in the processing of the distinctive linguistic units, called phonemes that make up all spoken and written words." The smallest meaningful unit segment of language. In the hierarchical modules of language system it is at the bottom. Amazing such a small thing as make my life hell.

Compensated dyslexics, that's Gregory and me. Compensation is better somes days than others. Actually some times of day better than others. I can hold my own if it is earlier in the day and I am not tired.

Truth be told I feel better after reading this article. I had put off as it long as I dared. It was short and to the point. It was enlightening.

Now how do we fix us old folks?

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