--- Sonja van Baardwijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jan Coffey wrote:
I also feel that it is necessary to note that there is a lot of quackery
around learning disabilities. FREX The Gift of dyslexia is a
non scientific book with absolutely ridiculous notions like dyslexics
shoes
come untied more often, and that dyslexic are clumbsy. There are studies
by
~real~ scientists such as Shaywitz shoing that this stuff is nonsense.
Well, about those shoes. ;o) I remember that a while back I read about
some research into tying shoe laces. It showed that there are many ways
to tie your laces but there are only one or two ways that will result in
laces that will not continuously come undone. Well that, and it helps if
you knot the loops of your toddies shoelaces once you tied them. I don't
have the link to it, but if it exist maybe a benevolent listee might
provide it for our amusement. :o)
Just passing on the info from real scientists. The thing you don't realize is
the links you provided refernce reasearchres the dyslexic comunity knows to
be quacks. There are hundreds of dyslexics out there who are being told that
their problem is simply solved with red glasses, that they are clumsy, that
they are inferior, that they need special help. It's all BS.
One does not have to be autistic to have a heightened sense for such
things as flickering lights or shrill electronics. The average person can
only see
flicker below some frequency (can't remember what it is just now) and
the
above average person can only here between 20 Htz and 20k Htz. There are
individuals who can see and here better, and they are often distracted in
learning environemnts that contain such noise.
Thank you for the information. I personally have exceptionally good
hearing but found that I can shut it down or more like totally screen my
surroundings out while I work. It usually results in me being very
concentrated, the more so, the noisier the environs I'm working in get.
People have found that it then takes a considerable amount of effort to
get my attention once I'm in that state. So I sort of use the noises
around me to focus my thoughts and become very concentrated. Something I
found totally impossible in a silent room, where I would jump at even
the slightest of sounds.
You are one of millions of individuals on this planet who are lucky enough to
have autistic tendencies. Use your powers of concentration wisely. Recognize
those like you, and those deeper in do not suffer from a defect, they are not
broken, they do not need help. well, other than help being treated as an
equal in society.
It is ridiculous to suggest that a student should wear dark red glasses
when the lighting could simply be adjusted. Especialy if the student is
autistic and is having a difficult enough time socialy anyway.
Reading this (and Julia's response) I feel that I have to ask if either
you or Julia for that matter read or even glanced at the sites I pointed
to? The reason I'm asking is because f.i. information like below is on
one of the sites and both your responses seem to be oddly out of sync
with this and other things mentioned there.
from http://www.read-eye.connectfree.co.uk/dyslexia.htm
Once again these people are quakcs. If you contact them as a concerenc=ed
parent of a shild with autism or dyslexia they will try and convince you that
all your childs problems are optical and can be fixed with red glasses.
Visual stress is a condition that often contributes to reading
difficulties in adults and children. The condition is related to light
sensitivity in disorders such as migraine and epilepsy. It causes
distortions on the printed page when black print contrasts sharply with
a bright background.
So, DONT USE FLORESENT LIGHTS, and DON'T TURN THE LIGHTS ON BRIGHT!!!
Most public places have the lights on so bright and use floresets becouse
they are cheeper. Somewhere along the line people bought into an old wives
tale that dim lights are bad for your eyes. actuly bright lights are. No one
needs dark red lenses, what they need is the lights to be turned down.
Visual stress is often a big part of the problem in Dyslexia,
No more so than it is for anyone else. remember these people use the term
Visual Dyslexia and then drop the visual so that they are just saying
dyslexia they are still not talking about the same thing. And if they are
they are lying.
but can
also affect other poor readers and may cause eyestrain and headaches in
good readers.
etc.
disclaimer I didn't say, nor did I attempt to say that this in any way
applies to Jan, nor that it was _the_ solution to cure any or all
dyslexic and/or autistic people, nor did I say that every dyslexic can
become a normal reader by putting on dark red lenses, nor did I say that
every dyslexic is autistic or that every autistic person is dyslexic, or
a combination thereof. Nor did I as far as I know in any
