MP brands dyslexia a 'fiction'

[vicar]

Is he right or wrong, what do people think.


http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/m...er/7828121.stm

[TAKTAK]

http://forums.hexus.net/general-disc...ng-all-up.html

[vicar]

Thanks misssed it.

[Jezza101]

I think these problems do exist - I just wonder if they need to be labelled. I always feel like death in the morning and continuously lathargic - does that mean I have ME? I find it hard to concentrate on one topic and get bored easily - does that mean I have ADHD? I get numbers mixed up all the time (I'll read a number as 25, clear as day, then look back and it is actually 52!) - am I dyslexic? Maybe I am all those things but I have never recieved special treatment. I just get on with life and deal with those things.

I can't help thinking that by drawing attention to these issues it almost gives permission not to try. Is that harsh?

A further example from education. My partner is a teacher and demands equal standards from all her pupils. And she gets it. Parents ask in disbelief - how come little Jonny behaves in your classes? Why is he getting an A in your subject and is failing everything else? I think sometimes people just need a bit of self dicipline and confidence and these things can be overcome.

Like I said at the start, these problems are real, they just shouldn't be an excuse.

[thunder12]

i believe there are many problems that have just been thrown into one title "Dyslexia". It is ovbious that people do have problems but these need to be defined imo and not just put under one title such as this. It is actulally offensive to tell people they do not have a problem when it is clear that they do.

[TK29]

I thought it was obvious that it is a condition that does exist. I have no personnel experience but i have heard that so and so had learning difficulties at school, etc.

[Gfinch]

Only 10% of Dyslexia cases are true I think.

[j1979]

im dyslexic, i can assure people its true!! it is impossible to fake as if not just a case of testing what dyslexics are bad at but also areas that they are good at!

dyslexics are bad at:

short term memory,
non logical procedure (ie spelling and language)
motor skills (ie reading)
and with some dyslexics visual and auditory.

all these problems are caused because the brain is wired differently to non-dyslexics. the brain of a dyslexic does not have a dominant side. in most the left side takes control making most people right handed. most dyslexics have equally dominant sides of the brain IE left and right same level of activity and wire equally and as the makes the above points difficult for dyslexics it also makes the excepionally good at:

spatial awareness
orientation
logic
block design.

all of which are tested for when people are tested for dylexia. if you poor in both areas your just Thick! if your exceptional in both your a genius, and if your poor in the top skills but very good at the spacial stuff chances are your dyslexic.

for instance my IQ in both of my dyslexia assessment (when i was 7 yo and again when i started Uni at 21) was around 118, but my spatial awareness IQ was around 160. last time i tested it was 169 on a faceboo application

http://apps.facebook.com/spatial/quiz/take_quiz.php

but i only score about average on the normal iq test.

dyslexia is very real.

[TheAnimus]

I get incredibly frustraited with this discussions about dyslexia.

Ok, lets be honest, who here in the 'normie' catagory will be able to keep up with me at boolean algebra, playing with NAND gates, or developing software?

Too many poletitions would simply just like to turn everyone into exactly the same, carbon copies.
Not only is that incredibly boring, its not very useful, we've only seen the amazing achivements of man via specalisation.