Is dyslexia cureable, fixable, correctable, improvable....?

[rnmcd]

I've heard some 'successful' people claim that they have/had dyslexia.

How can that condition be improved?

 

[aidanjm]

there must be ways to develop strategies to overcome or get around it. lots of successful people have dyslexia.

 

[Mean MrMustard]

Google "Whoopi Goldberg"

 

[sao123]

stop reading backwards. problem fixed.

 

[IronWing]

On, it only gets worse with age.

But you can help everytime you mail a letter...

Link

 

[Cdubneeddeal]

.dexif eb nac ti seY

 

[Willoughbyva]

I forgot what they are, but there are some copeing stratigies that you can use to help with it. Try the web and the library. If you are in college your school might have some resources that will help you.


Perry

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: rnmcd
I've heard some 'successful' people claim that they have/had dyslexia.

How can that condition be improved?

Dyslexics of the world...UNTIE!!!


Anyway....I'm dyslexic. I haven't found anything that helps...although I do just fine. I wouldn't make a good accountant though as I tend to be pretty bad with transposing numbers....really screwed me up in all my math classes...but I muddled through those. I don't write words mixed up, but I read them that way sometimes.

Like..example. When playing Final Fantasy 8 - I read the name "Rinoa" as "Riona" through the entire game and never noticed that I was reading it incorrectly until years later when discussing something with a friend and they kept calling her "Rinoa".

 

[loic2003]

A friend of mine was part of DNA - the National Dyslexic Association - who really helped him. Took time, however.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

It depends on a lot of factors, but with schooling most of it can be overcome. I have several aunts and cousins that are dyslexic. (my cousins weren't caught until around the 7th and 8th grade, they went from D- students to B/B+ students after a year of special classes.)

 

[HardcoreRobot]

i believe they just need different teaching methods for the most part

 

[compuwiz1]

on, we're denwo!

 

[aircooled]

I have dyslexia. You have to "learn how to learn". Once you find it you'll be fine. There are several limitations, I cannot read a book and absorb the story as I have to concentrate on each word rather than the plot. I can however read technical manuals and learn from them. Classroom formats were useless for me.

 

[IronWing]

The University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh used to have a dyslexia program that sudents said really helped. The program involved a "learning to learn" type summer school plus tutoring during the regular sessions. That was twenty years ago so I don't know if the school still offers it.

 

[rnmcd]

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[rnmcd]

Originally posted by: rnmcd
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