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Dyslexia and Books

Dyslexia is not due to letter reversals, not matter what the DAM people* might tell you. It seems to be phonolological.
It is a case of confusing correlation with causality based on biased selection of data. Most kids initially have reversal problems and the kids called dyslexic are just as likely as others to do that. I'll find a good reference when I get to my copy of Stanovich's "How to think Straight about Pyschology."






*Mothers Against Dyslexia.
 
But now we have this research:

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

So where does dyslexia fit in now? The research says that letter odrer dsoen't metatr.
I maen, all teshe dscyxelis for yraes hvae tlod us taht tosensrapd lreetts in teihr wdros csaue tehm ditifecifuls in rdieang, but oouslbviy ttah's a lie and the fcat of the meattr is tvyhe'e jsut been lzay.
 
Jeff Corey said:
cufk fof.
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I'm going to have to submit this to those researchers from Cambridge.

According to them, the first and last letters of each word are supposed to remain in place, and only the inner letters are to be rearranged.

Even though you broke these rules, I understood your message perfectly.

Oh and btw, ukcf ffo yourself :)
 
logical muse said:
But now we have this research:

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

So where does dyslexia fit in now? The research says that letter odrer dsoen't metatr.
I maen, all teshe dscyxelis for yraes hvae tlod us taht tosensrapd lreetts in teihr wdros csaue tehm ditifecifuls in rdieang, but oouslbviy ttah's a lie and the fcat of the meattr is tvyhe'e jsut been lzay.
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If you write a program to truely randomise the letters in words the text becomes a lot harder to read.
 
I sent my nephew (who is at Cambridge) a birthday card addressed as above.
The postie got it all right, but the nephew's Chinese labmate was a bit bemused.
In answer to the OP, I suggest Neal Stephenson's book "The System of the World" in the paperback edition from Arrow Books. Pages 657-704 are upside down and bound backwards.
(If this is a deliberate part of the plot, which would not surprise me at all, given the other tortuous twists, please don't spoil it for me. I just got to PP656 today.)
 
logical muse said:
But now we have this research:

"Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe."

So where does dyslexia fit in now? The research says that letter odrer dsoen't metatr.
I maen, all teshe dscyxelis for yraes hvae tlod us taht tosensrapd lreetts in teihr wdros csaue tehm ditifecifuls in rdieang, but oouslbviy ttah's a lie and the fcat of the meattr is tvyhe'e jsut been lzay.
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That's great :) I really can scan-read that as fast as the properly spelled words - that's very interesting. I reckon that a lot of the understanding is gained from context though and that if you wrote a sentence that was contextually ambiguous I would have to read it more carefully.
 
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