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Subject: Autism and dyslexia connection

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nate (frustrated and scientific/Nate)

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Date Posted: 08:11:26 12/26/09 Sat

I have since birth been autistic with a learning disability. I have problems with numbers, losing words on the page when reading, memory, math, typing, reading things incorrectly even when reading slowly, forgetting names, and sometimes not being able to visually percieve things that are right in front of me. All of this is with or without my glasses (which I couldn't afford until 25), though the glasses clarify things alot. Despite all of this I love to read although I'm rather slow at it. Now when I was about 7 I had a head injury and that's when everything went down hill. A speech therapist and I have traced numerous nuerological problems back to that exact day. Does anyone know of connections between dyslexia and autism, or dyslexia and other neurological problems? I really have to know how to visually deal with this and frankly I need a cure now. Thanks.

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[> Subject: Re: Autism and dyslexia connection
Author: Tracy Rezentes [ Edit \| View ]	Date Posted: 12:19:46 01/01/10 Fri I have read of children who have aquired dyslexia through frequent earaches in childhood. Boxers, also, have obtained Parkinson's Disease (neurological) due to repeated blows to the head, so it is logical to me that a traumatic brain impact could trigger neurological difficulties and perhaps dyslexia.