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Re: Dsxyliea

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This may help some people who deal with this problem.

http://www.anlp.org/how-could-nlp-help-me.php?cscid=11

http://www.anlp.org/files/dyslexia-strategies_33_153.pdf

for those who are having extreme difficulty, you may want to let your computer read that to you.

best of luck to all, I hope this makes a difference for someone.

Re: Dsxyliea

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Dysgraphia is a part related to dyslexia. This can be a problem, b d p q 9, W M N, O 0 o e, E 5 S R B and more.

Did the parent originally talk about dysgraphia? Because while I have pretty serious dysgraphia I'm not really dyslexic. While related they're pretty significantly different. One of my best friends growing up had dyslexia and with my dysgraphia we always joked about being one 'normal' person.

No. At age 60, when I was 12 they really didn't have a name for any of this. For years my school records had be as retarded. It was not until I taught myself calculus and trig in the 8th grade that my parent new something was wrong and sent teaching specialists at OU. They a used the word dyslexia. This was all very new in the 60s.

Re: Dsxyliea

#113

Wow, could you use this plugin to effectively DRM a document? This may be a stupid question... Assume you wanted to ensure non plagerism, just use this this to make it such that each visitor is given a random version of the document which the human mind can read but will be tough as hell to copy/paste phrases or paragraphs?

> ensure non plagerism

That would be interesting. You could fairly easily write an automatic spell corrector though. Just replace each word with the most likely anagram as scored by a Markov chain.

I imagine you could do random word substitution with synonyms. By this "watermark" you could identify the source of a leaked document.

Re: Dsxyliea

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post #66

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Dysgraphia is a part related to dyslexia. This can be a problem, b d p q 9, W M N, O 0 o e, E 5 S R B and more.

I was experimenting with character substitution too, but it won't work well with a variable width font, since the words at the end of the page moves a lot.

There are fonts to help with dyslexia. They try to make like letter different. They also remove a lot of the variable spacing. https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/dyslexie-font/

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I am dyslexic, and just for some background info I have uncorrected 20/20 vision but my symptoms are exacerbated by comorbid ADHD. I'm sure everyone experiences it differently, but the image on the left is a pretty close approximation of what I often see when trying to read from a page: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Dyslexic... Say I was reading the line "...as well as other perceptual tasks." I…

does things like the open dyslexic[1] font actually help? 1: opendyslexic.org

Yes they do if your dyslexia is also mixed with dysgraphia. Personally I find the very helpful.

Re: Dsxyliea

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post #107

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Unlike inebiration, dyslexia is in fact visual by definition; it has to do with having difficulty reading, even in the absence of other cognitive difficulties. It's just not something that occurs due to some issues in the visual pipeline, which could give it a "pixel level" representation/explanation. However, the entire pipeline from the cornea of your eye and retina, through the optic nerve and back to the visual c…

To qoute user obeone from this thread: According to Alice Wellborn, a dyslexia expert of some note: Many years ago, researchers believed that dyslexia was a visual perceptual problem - that it was based in how a person saw letters and words. Now we know for sure, through brain imaging studies, that dyslexia is a problem in the language system of the brain, not the visual system. Dyslexia is the result of a significan…

> Dyslexia is the result of a significant weakness in the phonological processing system

Does that mean that dyslexics have trouble with the spoken word? The Wikipedia page lists such issues as associated conditions:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia#Associated_conditions

``Many people with dyslexia have auditory processing problems ...''

Re: Dsxyliea

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Ugh, as someone with dyslexia, it's nothing visual, so trying to visualize being dyslexic is an exercise in futility. You know those "drunk" googles that distort your view? They certainly make it harder to walk, but they in no way make you feel drunk... Try explaining someone what it feels like being on LSD... you can't. Telling people that letters jump around is an easy way to dismiss people whit out having to do a…

I'm not dyslexic, but the bigger problem I see with this demonstration is that I actually still found it fairly easy to read. There's actually not that much ambiguity for most rearranged words when they're in the context of grammatical sentences. I'm sure that real dyslexia is a much more difficult challenge than this demonstration.

Interesting. For me (not dyslexic) this demonstration hurts my head so badly that I can't read more than one sentence at a time without looking away.

Some of the words pop out to me immediately, but others I have to stare at for a while before I can figure out what the word is. The way the letters jump around puts an immediate stress on my brain that is really unpleasant.

Re: Dsxyliea

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post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unlike inebiration, dyslexia is in fact visual by definition; it has to do with having difficulty reading, even in the absence of other cognitive difficulties. It's just not something that occurs due to some issues in the visual pipeline, which could give it a "pixel level" representation/explanation. However, the entire pipeline from the cornea of your eye and retina, through the optic nerve and back to the visual c…

To qoute user obeone from this thread: According to Alice Wellborn, a dyslexia expert of some note: Many years ago, researchers believed that dyslexia was a visual perceptual problem - that it was based in how a person saw letters and words. Now we know for sure, through brain imaging studies, that dyslexia is a problem in the language system of the brain, not the visual system. Dyslexia is the result of a significan…

As a dyslexic of some repute, (I'm 60) I can't say both are turn. Both visual (dbpq9) queuing and audible (phonics) apply. I believe the difference in test done by people like Ms Wellborn are because of the changes in the way children are tough. "Hooked on phonics" is now thought as bad.

Re: Dsxyliea

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post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To qoute user obeone from this thread: According to Alice Wellborn, a dyslexia expert of some note: Many years ago, researchers believed that dyslexia was a visual perceptual problem - that it was based in how a person saw letters and words. Now we know for sure, through brain imaging studies, that dyslexia is a problem in the language system of the brain, not the visual system. Dyslexia is the result of a significan…

> Dyslexia is the result of a significant weakness in the phonological processing system Does that mean that dyslexics have trouble with the spoken word? The Wikipedia page lists such issues as associated conditions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexia#Associated_conditions ``Many people with dyslexia have auditory processing problems ...''

Yes, some dyslexis like myself do. For example Pin and Pen both sound the same to me. I don't care how you try to pronounce them or with different accents. They are always the same.

Re: Dsxyliea

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post #26

Ugh, as someone with dyslexia, it's nothing visual, so trying to visualize being dyslexic is an exercise in futility. You know those "drunk" googles that distort your view? They certainly make it harder to walk, but they in no way make you feel drunk... Try explaining someone what it feels like being on LSD... you can't. Telling people that letters jump around is an easy way to dismiss people whit out having to do a…

I am dyslexic, and just for some background info I have uncorrected 20/20 vision but my symptoms are exacerbated by comorbid ADHD. I'm sure everyone experiences it differently, but the image on the left is a pretty close approximation of what I often see when trying to read from a page: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Dyslexic... Say I was reading the line "...as well as other perceptual tasks." I…

Would it be fair to say that you see text fine and not like that link but you do experience it that way?

I've been thinking about this since I posted my comment. I feel like it may be a reasonable way to say/explain it: we don't see letters/words jump around, but we do experience them jumping around in a non-visual way.

Is that accurate, or do you really mean that you visually see that circle like in that link?

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