--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, bob_brigante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dyslexia, in which the mind scrambles letters or stumbles over text, > is twice as prevalent in the U.S., where it affects about 10 million > children, as in Italy, where the written word more closely corresponds > to its spoken sound. "Dyslexia exists only because we invented > reading," said Tufts University cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf, > author of "Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading > Brain." > > (more) > http://tinyurl.com/4s3se3 >
More to the point, reading, writing and even speaking without comprehension, each different language/writing system, is predicted by scientists quoted in the article to have unique effects on the people who indulge. Shades of MUM Sanskrit lessons. lawson
