Dyslexia

[xristiana]

How willing is the system that names, categorizes and assumes, based on isolated, limited information to drop all its theories and start researching all over again? How willing is it to confess its inability to know that which lies beyond its limiting perception?

These are just rhetorical questions of course, for the answer is obvious to the less submissive. Revolutionary answers cannot arise from a system that uses a closed thought process that is based on profit and self-importance.

There is much at stake; more than money, there is the very credibility of the whole scientific, medical, educational and state institutions at risk. For that reason, we should not expect any drastic changes as an apocalyptic change, in the near future.

Read the whole article here: http://expandyourperception.com/dyslexia/ 

[Meredith]

From the article:
Why is dyslexia linked so closely with school and learning in the structured, mainstream way?

 

It's easy to blame dyslexia when a child doesn't read on the school's schedule - which also means it is largely unstudied except as it relates to schoolkids struggling to read. I know there are people with dyslexia who learn to read without any problems at all - my daughter is one and I've met others - but that's a population which isn't studied for the most part.

 

Since it is a lifelong characteristic of a person, why is there so much confusion in younger children, as to the diagnosis?

Actually, one of the problems with diagnosing younger children with dyslexia is that it's a common developmental stage - one of the reasons older educational theories recommended not teaching reading before age 7 or 8, in fact. So it's not always a lifelong characteristic!

 

Sorry not to see any links - do you have any good ones?