Return-Path: <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h5CLumC17889; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:56:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:56:48 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <0257DED4.22D3C22E.0A349A3F@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-4eff@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-4EFF:2376] Re: Fw: Overview concepts of Michael Pressley X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Atlas Mailer 2.0 Status: O Content-Length: 1103 Lines: 13 Andres, Tom, I didn't read the article so I don't know where the point of controversy lies, there seems to be one, I'll just have to ignore it. I think we are working, in reading, with symbol systems, and how they are coded in the brain. I have a young friend who is a classic dyslexic--missing phonemes, she can't hear some sounds due to their speed, so words can't be broken down auditorially (sp?) and the elements stored visually. She learned to read English holistically. Now she is studying Chinese, and of course she is a natural as it is a language of pictographs. I believe there are very few dyslexics, most people can learn reading using phonics if they are well taught. A note on processing--it is done in parallel. That is, while we speak or read language in a string, that is not how the brain processes it. So different parts of the brain will work on processing different parts of a language stream. This accounts for the weird aphasias Andres recounts--different processing parts of the brain have been damaged, so specific language parts don't get processed. Andrea
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