Tag: dyslexia
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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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What It Takes To Read Fluently, Part II
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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What It Takes to Read Fluently Part I
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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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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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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Outside the Box: The Dyslexia Graphic Novel – Introduction
About the same time I finished writing the previous posts, I realized that I had a problem — I was asking people who have trouble reading to read. I really want to get this information out to people who have dyslexia, so I decided to turn what I had written into a graphic novel, with the…
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Outside the Box: The Dyslexia Graphic Novel – Malik’s Podcast
This section gives a quick overview of what we’re going to talk about in the rest of the graphic novel. But it has some problems, first among them that the teacher, Ms. Tate, corrects the hero-scientist, Malik twice in the first three panels. Does this put you off as a reader?
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What Dyslexia Isn’t
What Dyslexia Isn’t What are some other misconceptions about dyslexia? And I feel like I still have too many words. What can I take out?
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PATTERN RECOGNITION – SEEING WHAT OTHERS DON’T
Because dyslexics use your creative right brains more, that side gets very strong. This strength may let you soak up patterns of things that you see, and processes that you imagine. Dyslexics link ideas together in different ways – instead of following a “logical” step-by-step sequence, you might see a pattern or similarities and likenesses.…
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