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Can You Raed Tihs?

Can You Raed Tihs?

explore an interesting reading phenomenon

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Scary this thing!

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Contributed by: s8m2s Sunday, January 29 2006 @ 11:04 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: YES

First off i'm have ADD but more relevant here I'm dyslectic. This is scary, over the years i have managed to more of less overcome my dyslexia (i now read and right slower then most but normally). The Crazy thing is that i find words "ciphered" this way to be easier to read smoother, like i don't have to think wile reading. this however only works some of the time.

I find small words like "tihs" and "raed", no trouble but longer words like "trouble" frequently impossible to read. This may be b/c 1st and last letters are not the only one that need to be swopped... scratch that, reverse it. The orangemen of the letters in the middle does matter. Though they do not need to be in order.
Also i frequently read using the Shape of a word "Brooklyn" is much easier to read then "BROOKLYN".

It's a cool tool though, and a interesting concept.
But, good god man, Where's the Spell Check?!?   
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Scary this thing! - kingfisher2

Hiya,

I was just wondering out of everyone here who has dylsexia if any of you have ever undertaken a colour blindness test?

I remember reading that a very clever optician had found out that a lot of dyslexia was actually caused by colour blindness due to one side of the brain focusing information quicker than the other. He corrected the colour problem in a great number of patients and the dyslexia went away. Doesn't work in all cases but always something to try.

Best wishes,

Mark

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