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Subject: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: Ofer (Interested) [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 05:55:13 05/20/09 Wed Just wrote a blog on the topic: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? (published in wordpress) Would love to get your thoughts regarding how things would be different if dyslexics were the majority... [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: John (Curious) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:29:38 05/21/09 Thu Where exactly is the blog posted? What URL? I am curious about your statement. My experience is that most other people get through written material much faster than me and I am very slow in producing written material. Degrees of affectedness may be on a continuous spectrum. John

[> [> Subject: Re: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: Ofer (happy (it's friday)) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:31:31 05/22/09 Fri Hi, I am not sure if you found the blog or not (since both messages are from John - but spelled differently :-)... Anway, the blog can be found at: http://ghotit.wordpress.com/2009/05/19/dyslexia-learning-disability/ Would love to get your inputs... Cheers, Ofer

[> Subject: Re: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: Jhn (Found it) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 17:16:32 05/21/09 Thu Found it. I am not quite slick on blogs and such. Gotcha. Nice thoughts. A diversity of software suppliers is good for the market and the needs of users which vary. It could be cheaper the mainstream the uses become. You talk about phonetics. People have tried for a long time to bring in phonetic spelling. American English being a little more that way than British English. George Bernard Shaw and others advocated in Britain for phonetic spelling. They failed. It could have been a power thing that kept the social and educated elite in their position of power. I think you are right about written English (and other written languages) evolving differently if our style of brain processing of text was more common. I think the actual characters of the written language would have developed as clearer shapes as well as. I have been shown that Arial font is much clearer than Times Roman – even if some people think Times Roman is thought to look jazzy. Look for your own strengths. Learning differences may well contribute to those strengths. Different ways of thinking bring different solutions to problems or even help us see problems that affect everyone but have not been clearly identified and defined. That’s where real advances in learning come from. Best wishes for your future, John

[> [> Subject: Re: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: Ofer (Still interested) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:39:03 05/22/09 Fri Hi, Thanks for your inputs... I certainly believe English, learning methods, software solutions etc. would definitely be different if us dyslexics were the majority. They say that the percentage of dyslexics is increasing all the time... so maybe in a generation or two this will become a reality :-) I actually saw a great video on youtube regarding learning differences. You can find it at : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndlqh38bZmU I liked it saw much that I am just about to release a short blog on it... Cheers, Ofer

[> [> [> Subject: Re: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: John (Grateful) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 20:39:21 05/23/09 Sat I followed your YouTube link. Thank you for putting me on to it. I found it touching. It gave me some slightly different perspectives. LD is different from everyone that has one. Just as life is different to everyone. We all have different experiences and perceptions. Sometimes how we experience the world is due to our past experiences and our different outlook. Sometimes it's due to qualitative differences in perception. I often laugh when I think of the image of the the artist painting and endlessly mixing and tinting colours. Even the perception of the simplest colour is different in different people. Males have halved the blue receptors females do, so males do not perceive blue the same as females -- at least not a sensitively. That's just the beginning of the visual perception process. Differences in brain processing of visual stimuli bring in a whole new ball game. That's where the physiological forms of dyslexia giveaway to neurological effects. People were dyslexia may differ in visual perception to the majority of the population or humanity, but there's great variation within the portion of humanity with dyslexia. We are all individual. We all have their own gifts. Your YouTube link has inspired me to keep striving to assist others. Assisting others is the strongest and deepest way to me to help myself. John and Jhn (Oops!) were both me. Thanks to your contribution. It was helpful and inspiring. I have been trying to get a support group together in Melbourne, Australia. This and other Internet sites you have shown me may well be the most favoured means of mutual support between people with LD. There are some people who want to talk directly to others. I need to get a formal organisation to support "my group" so that everyone is protected and there is a formal oversight of ethical behaviour. It sounds complicated, but it doesn't have to be. Thanks to your contact I am inspired to keep trying. Regards, John

[> [> Subject: Re: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: Ofer (Grateful) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:32:53 05/24/09 Sun Hi, I am very grateful for your warm inputs. Your comments are very interesting and quite inspirational too... Maybe you should start a blog yourself (if you don't have one yet)... I want to ask if I may place your comments as "comments" in my blog, so that others who visit these 2 blogs, may see your comments... Feel free to say no, if you want to keep this discussion on a more intimate note... Cheers, Ofer

[> [> [> Subject: Re: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: John (Yes) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 01:21:58 05/27/09 Wed By all means use my comments. To benefit others is to benefit oneself. It just works that way. John

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: What if over 50% of the Population had Dyslexia? Author: Ofer (Thanks) [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:30:29 05/29/09 Fri Cheers...