Word: dyslexia
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...Dyslexia is a learning problem and teaching disability...
...doing to teach dyslectic children. The main prescription: old-fashioned phonics, a system of learning to read by sounding out words by letter and syllable. Says Forman Headmaster Richard Peirce: "What Forman is trying to do is affect the national education scene by educating people to what dyslexia is-a difference in how people process information-and making available to teachers of both public and private schools the knowledge we have...
...estimated 25 million Americans have dyslexia, a condition that has been detectable for years by a battery of tests. Dyslectics, who are often lefthanded or ambidextrous, tend to reverse letters (b for d), twist words (was for saw), confuse word order (please up hurry), subtract from left to right, or have difficulty with sequential thinking. Despite these problems, they may be intellectually brilliant, with oral skills so keen they are able to bluff their way through early grades. Dyslectics can become high achievers like Edison, Einstein, General Patton, Nelson Rockefeller and Bruce Tenner. But they are often misdiagnosed as retarded...
Says Forman Teacher Margaret Roper: "I don't think of these kids as handicapped. There is no limit to where you can take them after you find the key." Despite the well-publicized view of New York Physician Harold Levinson, who argues that dyslexia is a disorder of the inner ear and can be dealt with by taking antihistamines, experts insist that dyslexia is not a disease...
Mary Chatillon, director of the Massachusetts General Hospital's Reading Language Disorder Unit maintains: "It would simply appear to be a different form of brain organization." Says Linda Frank, executive secretary of the Orton Dyslexia Society, an educational organization: "Dyslexia is a state of mind, often a very fine mind...