"Fiona Abrahami" <fiona@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Hans Aberg" <haberg_20080406@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> 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.
>
I wonder though if there are other "mix-ups" for those languages that
yield
similar results????
Steve
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