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

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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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

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