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My wife and I are together 24/7. We work together and both of us would not have it any other way. When we met we were both working on the road. We worked for the same company and managed to work together. After she got pregnant she had to stop working on the road. We hated being apart. That is why we went into business for ourselves. The point of this ramble is that I know my wife extremely well, as she does me. Sometimes I think we are twins.
Anyway, sometimes she apologizes to me when she makes a mistake because of her dyslexia. I know she is not faking it and make sure I tell her so. It is amazing how many people still think dyslexia is made up or all in your head. It is just not made up. Our son has dyslexia to a degree, just not as bad as his mother. Yes he is left handed too. While in Catholic School his eighth grade math teacher called it nonsense. Apache |
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I am dyslexic, one of eight learning disabilities, and it is sucks. I have lerned to compensate but it is harder when I am reading a ton. Graduate school was very frustrating because I had not had issues with my dyslexia for years and then all the sudden it was back. In reality, I went from reading maybe 250 pages of text a week to reading 3,000 pages of text a week. I studied Political Science and we read a lot. A tired, over taxed brain led to having to give myself time to learn to cope again. I am guessing that the weighted font works because it helps the brain process the information correctly. Maybe the weighted line helps the brain process that that part is suppose to stay put which forces the rest of the text to stay put. I now my brother read better using a blue transperancy, something about the color helped his brain process the information correctly. There are anecdotal stories that kids with dyslexia are reading better on ereaders potentially because the background color is just different enough to help the brain process the information correctly. |
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Colored plastic over the page is supposed to assist in reading as well. Blue and yellow or tan are supposed to work. I tried blue for awhile and it seemed to help a lot but changing the colored sheet page to page was a pain. On ereaders I use a tan background and it helps a lot for ease of reading.
Previously I only read on a have to basis. It dawned on me that I read online constantly. I ordered a Kindle and have been reading bunches since. In high school in the 50's I was classed as not too smart. It was many years later that I took a test online that gave indication of the problem - I answered almost all of the questions in a positive manner. What a revelation - there was a reason I didn't like to read :-) |
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What an excellent find, Doitsu! I've just sent the link to a brilliant, gifted and famous novelist who has described precisely the dizzying revolutions which this "grounded" font was designed to prevent.
Hope it works for him to any degree that might help. I'll also forward Blossom's comment about using Sans Serif fonts with even weight on all sides. I remember having to change the format of the MS of one of his stories because the font was unusual and the orientation of the page was landscape. Perhaps he was only making the text easier to write and read. Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 10-09-2012 at 10:06 AM. |
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This going to make alot of people cringe but alot of people who have this trouble find Comic Sans alot easier on the eyes. Yes I know alot of people hate that font. Here's a modified version for free for Dyslexics. It's just easier to say I'm dyslexic than to say I have issue with numbers but I think I have that worst than the other. I envy those who can do math in there head or on paper. I have to use my calculator, Excel, fingers and toes. I will agree as I have read 91 books this year my Dyslexia has started to act up worse after seeming to be getting better for many years. Last edited by Blossom; 10-09-2012 at 01:56 PM. |
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I'll have to show this to my husband.
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Typing and the watershed of 1995 w affordable computers has changed a lot for dysgraphics and it is very interesting to hear of this new font. |
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Thanks, Blossom.
I haven't heard back from my friend yet, so I have to assume that either he knew about this already, another of his many friends and admirers directed him to it, or he's especially busy at the moment given his schedule and the time of year. If I do hear from him on this subject, I'll forward the links you've provided. Incidentally: Many people have remarked on the quality and richness of my friend's style, which he says is partly due to the extra care in reading and writing which dyslexia requires. Quote:
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10-10-2012, 03:25 PM | #29 |
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http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...102926,00.html
It's an old article, from 2001, so it could well be dated. It talks about Italians with dyslexia read better than people with dyslexia from France or England. The article claims: English has 1,120 different ways of spelling its 40 phonemes, the sounds required to pronounce all its words. By contrast, Italian needs only 33 combinations of letters to spell out its 25 phonemes. As a result, reading Italian takes a lot less effort, and that's probably why the reported rate of dyslexia in Italy is barely half that in the U.S., where about 15% of the population is affected to varying degrees. It isn't saying that Italians are less likely to have dyslexia, but only that they are less likely to notice it. |
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I use Times Roman because I have difficulty reading other fonts, so using them slows my writing. I first realized this when I switched from Ariel to Times. My guess is that there is a lot of variety in humans with this problem. I can't help wondering if elementary schools should test for font recognition in kids who display this difficulty.
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