Fiona Abrahami 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.
My question is along a different path: if one knows how normal readers
identifies words in a specific language or context, then one can compare
with how dyslectic do it under such cir***stances. And with that
knowledge in hand, one might devise special training or workarounds, or
at least knowing what cognition components are failing.
Hans Aberg
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