"Hans Aberg" <haberg_20080406@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> ttw6687@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>> My mother did a lot of work on dyslexia some 60 ears ago. It seems
>> that early music training helps in dyslexia. (I have dyslexia, ...
>
> I am curious, can you read the text below? - Some researchers have
> discovered that readers define words mainly by identifying the start and
> end of word, so if the rest is scrambled, it is still possible to read
it.
> It would be interesting to know how that relates to dyslexia.
This is called the Cambridge Effect and research has shown it works for
English, French and Spanish. Recent research has shown that it doesn't
work
with Semitic languages, where words are built from three letter roots with
more letters added to the front, back, or middle of words to show
possession, gender, tense, etc. And pictographic languages like Mandarin
or
Japanese are likely to have a very different take on the Cambridge Effect,
so if we are speculating on what helps children overcome dyslexia, without
scientific backup it is just as valid to say learning Mandarin helps
dyslexic children as it is so say learning music helps them.
Fiona
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