Word: dyslexia
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Stuart Sundlun, a former lover and friend who went to the Bahamas with Hemingway in June, says she grappled with a raft of difficulties: "fundamental middle-child syndrome...dyslexia, bulimia, epilepsy." And there was alcoholism. In 1987, following a severe seizure during which she nearly bit her tongue off, Hemingway admitted herself to the Betty Ford Clinic. "I decided that had been a message to get well or I would die," she told an interviewer. But she did not confide to her therapists that she also was bulimic. Hemingway always struggled with her weight. In 1990 she slimmed down...
...whom go on to develop intractable problems with reading and writing. But Tallal and her colleagues take their findings one step further, and in doing so have aroused intense scientific controversy. They believe the same language-processing "glitch" may be the root of the more common problem of dyslexia, a reading disability that affects perhaps 15% of the population. If so, games like those that Keillan played could help at least some dyslexics whose impairment makes it hard for them to fully share in all the vital knowledge and pleasure that come with the printed word...
...this analysis is correct, then the possibilities for intervening early in a child's life multiply. "Wouldn't it be wonderful," asks Merzenich, in a burst of enthusiasm, "if we could treat dyslexia before a child started trying to read?" Or better still, before a child started trying to talk. Tallal and Merzenich go so far as to suggest that some forms of language impairment could turn out to be more correctable than poor hearing or poor eyesight. They point out that the earphones that transmit the exaggerated speech sounds to children's ears in the lab are only temporary...
According to John Voloudakis, the ATL coordinator, about 20 students consistently use the facilities, up from about nine two years ago. With facilities in the Science Center, Lamont Library and the Aiken Computation Lab, the ATL helps students university-wide with disabilities ranging from visual impairment to dyslexia...
...Dyslexia has been linked to a gene found on chromosome 6. If confirmed, the find could lead to early diagnosis so that remedial training can begin as soon as possible...