Originally posted by steve319+Sep 14 2005, 01:52 PM--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(steve319 @ Sep 14 2005, 01:52 PM)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-madame_zora@Sep 14 2005, 03:09 AM
I think that's the benefit of having a separate, polite thread about it rather than flaming a particular post or person.
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Yeah, I agree completely. This is infinitely preferable to personal attacks.
Interesting sort-of-related story: I have a student now who is clearly intelligent, works very hard at his studies, and has solid academic skills across the board but who consistently leaves off final consonants and screws up word endings and suffixes in both writing and reading (not being able to immediately distinguish between singular and plural forms, for example). He seems to have strong phonics and word deciphering skills, and has an exceptional usage vocabulary, but is consistently unable to overcome this one issue. I'm thinking now that there's a visual tracking problem, where his eyes aren't tracking across the page at the same rate or the blending of the signals isn't occurring as smoothly as it should. I'm recommending a developmental vision exam to check for this sort of thing. Imagine how it must feel to carry the burden of this for your whole life, to be sure that you must be "stupid" because this keeps surfacing where others seem to have no problem.
Isn't the pure
variety of humanity humbling sometimes? :hi:
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Yeah, that's tough. I was in peril of being placed in a slow learner class because of a combination of vision problems and dyslexia that were completely unnoticed until second grade. Funny how an eye exam, new glasses, moving me to the front of the class and a bit of tutoring on writing words in the same order I could sound them out helped. I still wrote individual letters backwards for years, and I couldn't read maps and tell north south east and west until I was in my thirties.
Believe me, I'm the first one to recognise that poor spelling doesn't necessarily mean poor comprehension, but where would I be if no one pointed out my mistakes? Still making them, that's where. I no longer have need to be embarassed when I write, so I feel these things empower us all.