suzmccarth wrote:

>
> --- 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.

Like I said, there is no such "thing" as dyslexia, and there's no one
"treatment" for all "reading disabilities." It's like saying "_the_ cure
for cancer" -- there are a gazillion different kinds of cancer, and
there isn't going to be one single way of treating all of them.

> 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.

I've never seen anyone but you enunciate such a claim ...
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@...