Re: CHAT: dyslexia

That was exactly the question my mother suggested to me as a topic for Ph D
research.  I doesn't seem like such a bad idea.  If only I were studying for
my Ph D!

Adam

>From: Yoon Ha Lee <yl112@...>
>Reply-To: Constructed Languages List <CONLANG@...>
>To: CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU
>Subject: chat: dyslexia
>Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 20:46:03 -0500
>
>This isn't exactly on-topic, but a friend asked this question and *I*
>don't know the answer, but I thought a group of conlangers wouldn't be a
>bad place to ask....
>
>*Somewhere* I read (and my friend did, too) that people actually read
>logographic systems like Chinese somewhat faster because the translation
>goes directly from shapes to word-in-head, rather than shapes to sounds
>to word-in-head.  It might have been the yingzi article on Rosenfelder's
>Zompist.com but I'm not finding the reference and I won't swear to it.
>
>Recently in Time or Scientific American or something I also read that
>dyslexia is far less common in places where people have a writing system
>that is "simpler" (in terms of phonology/phonetics, I suppose that
>meant), e.g. the rate of dyslexia is apparently a lot lower in Italy than
>in the U.S. (or some sample of English-speaking nations).
>
>We don't know if these are absolutely true, but the question occurred to
>my friend: so would a logographic system alleviate some or many of the
>problems of dyslexic readers?
>
>Just wondering,
>YHL
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