This has nothing to do with slings, but I have found that many slingers have this problem, like myself.
These are a few helpfull bits I have collected over years of listening to other people. And, I have tried a few myself and they did help.

Reading black text on a white field is often a little hard. Try to change the colour of the page (or if on the computer you can also change the text colour) A friend of mine has his fax printing on pink paper and he says it helps him a lot, ecp. papers with lot of numbers.
If you read a book you can change the page colour by using coloured plastic sheets which you lay over the text. Each person seems to react better with different colours so you may have to try a few.

Almost all people being dyslexic had a hard time when learning to read, most found that at one point it just clicked and from that moment on they read as good as anybody, or even better.  (I can read faster than most 'normal' people and so can many dislexic friends.)
So if reading is hard, just keep on doing it, when it clicks, you are rewarded.

We often have problems with our bodies motor control, fine as well as bigger. Again, training helps and we will end up better than average.

As many things, dyslexia runs in families. So if you are dyslexic, there is a big chance that one of the next generation will also have the same problems. But if you start early, with fine motor controll, moving, learning to read and so on, you give them a better start than they would otherwise have.

In slinging you use control over your body, in making slings you use fine motor control. In writing about slings you use control over the language part of your brain. All are exercices we do need till we have them down. And we do notice that spelling does improve on doing a lot, even better if we check the spelling, up to the point where people do not realize we have had problems.

(When I left school I could hardly spell English correctly, doing it a lot did help me up to the point I am now.)

I would like to see your tips and reactions.

Willeke

This is excellent advice for anyone afflicted with dyslexia.
I was diagnosed with severe dyslexia at an early age, but after a few years of being tutored by a specialist I was the best reader in my primary (elementary) school. I still find writing with pen and paper quite difficult, but typing is much easier.
And I agree, slinging is the kind of hobbey that promotes all kinds of beneficial self-change.

I have an ex-girlfreind that is dislexic and when she read she turned the books she read upside down.

Up side down, mirror image, or both at the same time. Once you have learned to read you can do it any way.

It was harder for me as a child, but as an adult I love the way I am.

Willeke

My ex didnt use a mirror, only upside down.It just made it easier for her.I understand what you mean about "once you learn" because while i am not dyslexic, I am color blindso i understand colors in shades of grey.

i was never diagnosed with dyslexia but reading this makes me think that i am a little. I had a hard time reading when i was young, and it did just click with me, i write like a 5 year old, and my spelling has gotten alot better since i joined this site.  I was very clumsy when i was younger, i fell down alot, and ran into things, but now i seem to be somewhat gracefull.  :) dont get me wrong when i wake up in the morning or just before bed i cant do anything like walking.  :)

You dyslexics can read upside down or sideways as easily as you can right-side up?  That is cool!  I've been an avid reader since I learned that the marks on the pages MEAN THINGS, back when my parents read stories to me.  I'm a fast reader and an excellent speller.  But I cannot read backwards, upside down, any way but upside-up.

Sounds like the part of your brain that deals with pattern recognition, is wired differently than mine.

You have said it better than all those learned people I have heard in a long time.

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Sounds like the part of your brain that deals with pattern recognition, is wired differently than mine.

Different, not wrong, and because all teaching methods are made for the norm, we have it harder to learn. But I have to admit that in my school they did a lot to help me along. Playing with small beads, to improve small muscle controle, extra lessons in spelling and a lot of one on one teaching when needed. Andthis was a normal primary school.

A friend was helped with her spelling by her mother. Mum bought choclate letters, the thin kind that are 1" wide and half that again high, 2,5 cm wide and about 4 cm high. She would make a set of words with them and if she did them right, she was allowed to eat some of them.

Willeke

Sounds very like the legend about how Balearic kids got their lunch... (I KNEW there would be a connection to slinging SOMEWHERE!)

Yeah, when I said "different" I did not mean "wrong".  My sister-in-law has several kids that are dyslexic, and she ran across a book that showed her things that dyslexic folks can do that "normal" folks have a real hard time with, and also showed that the phenomenon labelled "dyslexia" has to do with a lot more than just reading and writing.

Hey, I just looked up the book on the Web, and I found that it has been translated into Nederlandse!  It is "The Gift of Dyslexia" by Ronald Dell Davis, who is himself dyslexic.  I like how he describes the condition: "Dyslexia is the result of a perceptual talent.  In some situations, the talent becomes a liability."

Thank you, I am going to look that book up.

Yes, it does affects us all the way, mostly by making learning the skill harder but it results in being as good as others, and in some skills even better. But there are always things that will stay hard, you can not win in everything.

Willeke

I know from experiance that an allergie to dairy can cause symptoms very similar to dyslexia. I thought I had dislexia and after much research (on my parents part) we found out that it may be a food allergie. That's what it was in my case. I have cut out dairy (ok ok I didn't stick with it but have stopped eating nearly as much) and it has completely ceased to bug me except when I eat dairy. It can take a couple weeks for the symptoms to go away. I'll try to get some sites to help support my statement. But it has without a doubt helped me.

Maybe you never had "it"!! ;)
Stress also can play a role in things like that too I've noticed.

I have noticed that a lot of people have some of the symptoms of Dyslexia, but not enough to be diagnosed Dyslextic.
In those people the correction factor is most often enough not to notice problems.

But the correction factor is not working as good when you are tired. Or stressed.

So I wonder, if there was a 100 % test telling how dyslexic people are, how many people would score a little aqd some a lot.
I bet it is more than the 1 in 10 I am told are dyslexic.
I guess it would come closer to 1 in 4.

Mikeel, thanks for your bit about the allergie, do you know if more has been published about it?

Willeke

Here is a site I found. Very sorry but I had totally forgotten abou this. I will continue to search soon.

http://www.drlwilson.com/articles/food_intolerance.htm

Edit:
Not about dyslexia, but it is about food allergies.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/index.php?newsid=8625

aixelsyd htiw elpoep rof spit

So, that's it!   The best tip for those with Dislexia....


"You must think in Russian".


LOL


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LoL....and Dislexic, homophobic androids dream of eclectic creeps.

You folks are a riot!

Somebody did a study of how people read, and discovered that as long as the start and end of the words were correct, the middle parts cuold be mispeld very baldy and poelpe cuold sitll raed it.  And the article was written just liek that, I didn't reaize it was all misspelled utnil I was done...

Something like this?

Cdnuolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdgnieg. THE PAOMNNEHAL PWEOR OF THE HMUAN MNID Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer In waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is that the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter  y istlef, But the wrod as a wlohe. Amzanig huh?
(Sorry, I do not have the sorce for this.)

When I am tired I see texts like this, people with severe dislexia see all their texts like this all the time, some even worse.
In normal texts I see the short words like this, the longer words will normally have one twist rather than being all mixed as in the texts above.

Willeke

Willeke,
I haven't been back to this topic for a while; my apologies.

You got it exactly.  And I read that paragraph very easily, except for the part in all-capitals (that part, I had to work at each word).

BUT, I could only read that mess quickly.  If I tried to read more slowly, it turned into alphabet soup!

Wow, that's what some folks see ALL THE TIME?  No wonder some people have trouble reading.  If you never see the same words the same way twice, it will take much longer to learn the patterns.

Hey, I recently ran across the idea that ALL these mental "disorders" are ways the mind normally works, taken to an extreme degree.  For instance, the author claims that all geniuses are mildly autistic: if they were not, they would lack the single-mindedness to pursue their ideas.  Those who are recognized as autistic, are TOO autistic to qualify as geniuses.

That's pretty amazing. I can read Willeke's post without slowing or thinking at all (makes it worse actually). Pattern recognition at its finest.

Matthias

that is Amzanig!

More pattern recognition.....

According to medical experiments:

If you can find the Man's Head within 3 seconds, your right brain is highly advanced....much more developed than normal people.

If you can find the Man's Head within 1 minute, your right brain has developed normally....or about the same as most other sheeple in the herd.

If you can find the Man's Head within 1-3 mintues, your right brain is slow in reacting, you should eat more meat protein....and stand on your head at least twice a day.

If you can find the Man's Head in 3 minutes or more, your right brain is a disaster... extremely slow in reacting, the only suggestion is to please watch cartoons to help normally develop your right brain.  Avoid C-Span at all costs.

http://www.naute.com/funimages/missinghead.jpg


Peace,


TS

Less than 3 seconds, wow!  Perhaps your right brain is too active....maybe you should watch more C-span but not while standing on your head...

You are too modest......you need to drink more coffee.  


P.S.  Just make sure you grind your own beans!



Peace,


TS

:D

I found it in about 4-5 seconds.

well i m gunna go watch some tv now  :-/

haha i found the little bald guy...i did not time my self oops

The bald guy is just a distraction....the real head you must find is a pattern made of coffee beans.


Peace,


TS

I'm unable to see those kinds of things because  I only see through one eye at a time. To see those puzzles your eyes have to be working in unity.
I was wondering if that's what I was suppose look for.

oh..well i guess im up for a round of head standing or something

Still.....you sell yourself short.....I mean, 3 seconds!  Maybe I should consider becoming a red :-[ Bull fan....


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I think those tests are crap...too subjective.

Never underestimate the intelligence of those who think like you do.


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