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From: Chris on 30 Sep 2005 18:02 Dyslexics are picture thinkers - think using pictures instead of words. They excel at processing non-verbal information Loads of dyslexics are apparently the creative types - into art. Aparently many are computer experts, architects, graphic designers... I know that Rogger Meriman is... anyone else? I bet loads of Mac users are dyslexcis... I love the way everything on the Mac is so intuitive... you don't need to read a manual or anything.. it's just so easy. Windows use to drive me crazy. Using a Mac is so effortless it is unbelievable. I don't work for Apple by the way.. I was trying to find a word document the other day... so I used 'spotlight'... found it in a second. Without spotlight, I would have been rummaging around files and folders for a while... famous dyslexics - Richard Branson, Albert Einstein
From: Peter Ashby on 1 Oct 2005 08:07 Chris <Chris.Holland16(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dyslexics are picture thinkers - think using pictures instead of words. > > > They excel at processing non-verbal information I think in pictures, I have a close to photographic memory. I can call to mind pictures I have taken in my work (I'm a scientist) and think about them after not seeing them for weeks. I am also very far from a dyslexic, I was a spelling prodigy when younger and can tell you that my ability at spelling is in part tied to my pictorial memory, if I know what a word looks like I can tell if it has been misspelled before I can tell where the error is. Did you see the documentary on C4 recently debunking the idea of dyslexics? I found it rather convincing from a scientific p.o.v. Seems the ability to read is not related to intelligence, they punctured that one very well by getting a girl with Down's Syndrome to read a passage with lots of polysyllabic words in it. She read it faultlessly but in a way that said clear as a bell that she didn't understand it. There was lots of other evidence including some nice brain scans, but the message is that 'dyslexics' are simply intelligent people who need (or needed) appropriate remedial reading. When they get the appropriate support (based I was pleased to see on New Zealand phonics teaching) they catch up almost two reading years, and this was crucial, they stared reading for pleasure. Kids who have trouble reading, whatever their IQ, don't read in a very profound way. It was estimated that a kid who reads well will read more in 2-3days than a poor reader will in a year. We humans are very good at putting labels on the Universe, however there is no law that says the universe has to change to accord with our labels. Science has learnt that lesson the hard way by chasing snarks that turn out to be boojums. We have learnt recently for eg that labelling 'species' helps us but we do well to remember they are only labels. Peter -- Add my middle initial to email me. It has become attached to a country
From: Jon B on 1 Oct 2005 08:33 Chris <Chris.Holland16(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dyslexics are picture thinkers - think using pictures instead of words. > > > They excel at processing non-verbal information > > Loads of dyslexics are apparently the creative types - into art. > Aparently many are computer experts, architects, graphic designers... > > I know that Rogger Meriman is... anyone else? > I have a slight suffering, when I'm alright it isn't so noticable [1], but when I'm on a bad bad day I make Rogers spelling look brilliant. Fortunately I don't have too many days like that. > I bet loads of Mac users are dyslexcis... > > > I love the way everything on the Mac is so intuitive... you don't need > to read a manual or anything.. it's just so easy. > > Windows use to drive me crazy. Using a Mac is so effortless it is > unbelievable. I don't work for Apple by the way.. > Drives me crazy too, I came originally from a windows background, but did a lot more on the mac, then go and try to do some of the same things back on the PC again and end up pulling your hair out. Bloody network printers are a key example when which even a fool with no training can do on the pc. > > I was trying to find a word document the other day... so I used > 'spotlight'... found it in a second. Without spotlight, I would have > been rummaging around files and folders for a while... > I can normally find stuff quite fast without that but then I manage to keep a decent folder structure. [1] One of the few widgets I run is dictionary app though esp for in this group ;) -- Jon B real email to usenet at jonbradbury dot com
From: Bella Jones on 1 Oct 2005 09:06 Peter Ashby <pashby(a)blueyonder.co.ruk> wrote: > Chris <Chris.Holland16(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Dyslexics are picture thinkers - think using pictures instead of words. [...] > > I am also very far from a dyslexic, I was a spelling prodigy when > younger and can tell you that my ability at spelling is in part tied to > my pictorial memory, if I know what a word looks like I can tell if it > has been misspelled before I can tell where the error is. Me too. At school, I could even spell words in foreign languages that I didn't know at all. > Did you see the documentary on C4 recently debunking the idea of > dyslexics? I found it rather convincing from a scientific p.o.v. Seems > the ability to read is not related to intelligence, they punctured that > one very well by getting a girl with Down's Syndrome to read a passage > with lots of polysyllabic words in it. She read it faultlessly but in a > way that said clear as a bell that she didn't understand it. If I remember right, they also debunked the idea that dyslexia has something to do with the eyes, which I never thought was the case anyway. I also think that, after a time, the symptoms merge with the symptoms of depression (as I think may be the case with ADHD too). Dyslexic or not, if you are down, your comprehension gets worse and you cannot concentrate. If you are struggling, and people are telling you you're thick or hard to teach, it's going to get you down even more, and the cycle continues. -- bellajonez at yahoo dot co dot uk
From: Roger Merriman on 1 Oct 2005 12:33
Chris <Chris.Holland16(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Dyslexics are picture thinkers - think using pictures instead of words. > > > They excel at processing non-verbal information > > Loads of dyslexics are apparently the creative types - into art. > Aparently many are computer experts, architects, graphic designers... > > I know that Rogger Meriman is... anyone else? > > I bet loads of Mac users are dyslexcis... > there are a high number of dyslexics in graphics arts etc so its quite likely though i'm not sure that the mac has much more really going for persay for the dyslexic than windows etc, though the almost universal ablity to copy/paste between programs is very useful. > > I love the way everything on the Mac is so intuitive... you don't need > to read a manual or anything.. it's just so easy. > > Windows use to drive me crazy. Using a Mac is so effortless it is > unbelievable. I don't work for Apple by the way.. > > > I was trying to find a word document the other day... so I used > 'spotlight'... found it in a second. Without spotlight, I would have > been rummaging around files and folders for a while... in the dyslexic way i have a problems with spotlight (search for non mac users) in that if i mispell it will not find it, something more like google does where it finds what you typed but also asked did you mean this? > > > > > famous dyslexics - Richard Branson, Albert Einstein Roger |