Monday, June 2, 2008

FROM MY CHAPBOOK…

FROM MY CHAPBOOK… 0230 by Jeff Hess Found in my electronic chapbook. As attractive as the visual deficit theory of dyslexia is, more evidence has built up for a second theory, which explains dyslexia as a defect in auditory processing of language. Identifying the sounds (phonemes) that make up words is strikingly hard for dyslexics. Thus many have trouble distinguishing between related sounds such as ba and ga. Most children can break a word into syllables well before they can read, but dysl