Return-Path: <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g6PCbKX26314; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:37:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:37:20 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <34.2a97d151.2a714a7f@aol.com> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AWilder106@aol.com To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-ld@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-LD:4024] Re: More LD questions X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Mac - Post-GM sub 146 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 1390 Lines: 29 Tanya--many thanks for your suggestions, I know about both sources, and will study them further. What I'm after now from the list, is information from the field about your own experiences. I don't want to go astray, and teachers and administrators are likely to be closer the most relevant information--what is actually observed in working with adult students. Art has made a point of distinguishing between students with learning difficulties and those with learning disabilities--those with learning difficulties have reading problems which disappear with careful teacher attention to filling in the knowledge holes; even emotional "symptoms" can disappear with student success. An example: eye "wiggling" which makes difficulty with holding down a single image is probably related to visual magno cells in the brain not working as they should--the result is difficulty in being able to focus, letters seeming to slide over each other resulting in letter reversals. Remediation using colored films placed on a page seems to help, also, training with an eye patch over the the eye. Having been a school teacher I tend to be very interested in what teachers of adult students are seeing in their classrooms, and to trust their perceptions. Of course the definition of "dyslexia" itself is an issue, maybe I can skip over that for the moment. Thanks for your help.
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