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  EDline Vol. 7, no. 44     (18 February 2002)

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  Contents:

         Q & A
  [2sf]  Dyslexia 
            [Offshoot of [2sc] So is it Mondy or Tuesday?]

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** [2sf] Dyslexia
            [Offshoot of [2sc] So is it Mondy or Tuesday?]

         Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002
         From: Drusilla Calvert, d.calvert@macrex.com

Michael Lewis wrote:

> Perhaps there's an element here of the inability to hear sounds
> that aren't part of your own language. ...

Was it on EDline that I heard that dyslexia only occurs in
English-speaking countries?


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         Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002
         From: Iwan Thomas, iwan@frame.org.uk

I have a relation who is dyslexic, despite having been brought up
and educated almost entirely in Welsh - a language with perfectly
phoenetic and regular spelling.


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         Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002
         From: David King, david@kingdavid.org

Only because it's so difficult to spell dyslexia in the English
language! :-)


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         Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002
         From: Victor Dewsbery, translation@dewsbery.de

Some German kids have similar problems with the local equivalent,
"Legasthenie".


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         Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002
         From: David Ibbetson, isserlis@rogers.com

I've been seeing reports that dyslexia is rarer in countries
where there's (nearly) a 1:1 relation between spelling and sound.
I think Portuguese and Italian were particularly mentioned.


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         Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002
         From: Miranda Barker, wordwiseed@aol.com

Surely we don't still take the view that dyslexia is just a
matter of spelling - it's a vastly greater spread of difficulties
that impact on all sorts of areas of life. Organisation, memory,
different sorts of coordination and so forth and so on ... 


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         Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002
         From: David Ibbetson, isserlis@rogers.com

I suspect that, with more knowledge, we'll find that dyslexia is
a blanket name for a group of loosely related disorders. I was
reporting what has appeared in popular media recently.


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         Date: Thurs, 14 Feb 2002
         From: John Crane, jcrane8@bellsouth.net

Miranda Barker wrote:

> Surely we don't still take the view that dyslexia is just a
> matter of spelling - it's a vastly greater spread of
> difficulties that impact on all sorts of areas of life.

A pet peeve of my ex-wife, who had a doctorate in reading
education, was how people misused the word "dyslexia." If I
recall correctly, her point was as you say: it's much broader
than just a matter of spelling.


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         Date: Thurs, 14 Feb 2002
         From: Damaris Wilson, Wilsondidi@aol.com

I DO hope there are linguists out there linked in to all this - I
know there are ANU academics, at least, who would be very
interested!! Far more so than editors, I would have thought... 


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         Date: Thurs, 14 Feb 2002
         From: Michael Lewis, mlewis@brandle.com.au

I'm a linguist -- Macquarie, part time. I have a distinct feeling
that several other contributors are also linguists. Anyone else
game to own up?


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