--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
>
> > In any case, it is the phonemically segmental alphabet which

really

> > creates problems.
>
> Really? Where are your statistics on Spanish, Finnish, and Czech
> "dyslexia"?

Where these have the same script they have a different type of
orthographic system, more phonemic and regular. So like English in
one aspect and different from English in another. One can't say
anything about dyslexia without writing a book. I should not try.
However, I was trying to limit myself to commenting on script based
dyslexia.

That is the difficulty - there are few blanket statements about
dyslexia. When assessing a reading disability in a student we wade
through many different assessments. A visual spatial assessment can
have 10 subtests, and there are 8 common phonological tasks. Then
there is the language assessment and short term memory and visual
recall. No two students are alike.

Obviously any system with less load on the memory is easier but may
have other disadvantages. From experience, only anecdotal evidence I
find that helping students to segment a string of phonemes
like "scramble" to be the most difficult.

In any case I would not myself wish to publish on the topic, I just
wanted to dispell the notion that Cree script societies have more
dyslexia than any other.

Suzanne