What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley
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Dyslexia affects up to 1 in 5 people, but the experience of dyslexia isn't always the same. This difficulty in processing language exists along a spectrum -- one that doesn't necessarily fit with labels like "normal" and "defective." Kelli Sandman-Hurley urges us to think again about dyslexic brain function and to celebrate the neurodiversity of the human brain.
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Will bilingual and polylingual people experience dyslexia in their known languages at the same rate?
I'm a Bilingual with mild dyslexia, i'm not sure if it's common to experience this but, i have more difficulty in reading in Indonesian (my first language) than with English (my second language). When it comes to spelling though i feel there's more difficulty with English, is it the cause of different language structures between the two or is there something else?
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Karen Wiles
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I would expect that they do since it is a process not a language.
inez Blafla
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Apart from the perception of sounds and how they relate to symbols, however one perceives them, and how fine tuned one is to sounds in different languages, languages have also evolved with very different grammatical structures, including spelling, which are not logical, or transferable, in comparison to ones native language. When they further are difficult to transfer, (translate in the dyslexic sense), in phonetic terms, like English, French and Danish among the European languages, it is harder for the dyslexic brain to create a framework to hang the 'alien' bits on to. some approach it by overcoming the lack immediate transfer between sounds and recognisable structures, like the written word. It is the first stepping stone in the French pedagogical approach to main streaming dyslexic children. Tellingly exercises to 'hard wire connections' are the same for dyslexics as 'normal' children with speech problems. Spelling/reading skills are perhaps also differently linked to sounds.
