Category: Dyslexia Owners Manual
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DRAFT How We Learn — Scripts Let us Take Short-cuts
How the two sides of the brain process information while they learn a task is central to dyslexia. But it is also rather abstract. Because of that, I go over it several times in the graphic novel. Here is the first time I present How We Learn. Is it clear that once you learn a…
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DRAFT A Tale of Two Hemispheres — Character Attributes
With these images, I’ll have put up 99 pages. Am I keeping your interest? Do you feel like you understand what I’m trying to say? * I say that which traits you get are as random as a roll of the dice. But on PAGE 67, I say that there are several genes that influence…
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DRAFT A Tale of Two Hemispheres — How We Read
This section talks about a little brain science. The take-aways I want the reader to get is that 1) human brains were designed to process language verbally, 2) most people can adapt to processing language taken in visually, 3) people with dyslexia use both sides of their brains to process visual language. Do these ideas…
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DRAFT When Reading Went Wrong
I had a good time drawing this section — perhaps too good a time. Do I get too cute? Do you understand what is going on in each panel? I also traced some things — Malik’s head in the first frame is a good example. I needed to be able to zoom in on his…
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DRAFT Dyslexia Runs in Families
There is an asterisk on Page 67 that suggests that you flip to the end of the book for more information. I don’t have the book finished, so I’ll provide you with the information here: The many genes needed for a complicated trait like reading or dyslexia are spread across several chromosomes, not all on…
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DRAFT What It Takes To Read Fluently — Hearing the Sounds
I actually like this section pretty well. It is clear, doesn’t have too many words, and has several human elements in among the information. What do you think?
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DRAFT What It Takes to Read Fluently — Rapid Word Recall
I’m trying to not overwhelm readers as I present new ideas, so I have broken What It Takes to Read Fluently into two parts. As always, does this section make sense? Is this a good pace, or can I go faster?
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DRAFT Why Me?
This section blurs the lines from magical realism of the last section, when Malik invites Zara into his world, and Nate, who just walks in the door. I wanted it to be an amusing way to get Nate into Malik’s world, but is it clear what is going on?
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DRAFT What Dyslexia Looks Like
According to WordPress, my dyslexia blog posts are going out to all my followers. For that, I apologize. If they don’t interest you, please just ignore them. In the meantime, I will try to figure out how to just send them to folks who want to see them. Dyslexia doesn’t affect people the way we…
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New and Improved Website
Welcome to my new and improved website! My old one was beginning to look like one of those old farmhouses that just having rooms tacked on, so I decided to update the whole thing. A big shout-out to Jessica of Sutol Designs who set up the new site and made it all work! For those…
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