What is dyslexia? - Kelli Sandman-Hurley
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-is-dyslexia-kelli-sandman-hurley Dyslexia affects up to 1 in 5 people, but the experience of dyslexia isn't always the same. This difficulty...
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Take a moment to read the following.How was that?Frustrating?Slow?What were those sentences about?They're actually a simulationof the experience of dyslexia,designed to make you decode each word.Those with dyslexia experience that laborious paceevery time they read.When most people think of dyslexia,they think of seeing letters and words backwards,like seeing "b" as "d" and vice versa,or they might think people with dyslexiasee "saw" as "was".The truth is people with dyslexiasee things the same way as everyone else.Dyslexia is caused by a phonological processing problem,meaning people affected by ithave trouble not with seeing languagebut with manipulating it.For example, if you heard the wo...
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Take a moment to read the following.How was that?Frustrating?Slow?What were those sentences about?They're actually a simulationof the experience of dyslexia,designed to make you decode each word.Those with dyslexia experience that laborious paceevery time they read.When most people think of dyslexia,they think of seeing letters and words backwards,like seeing "b" as "d" and vice versa,or they might think people with dyslexiasee "saw" as "was".The truth is people with dyslexiasee things the same way as everyone else.Dyslexia is caused by a phonological processing problem,meaning people affected by ithave trouble not with seeing languagebut with manipulating it.For example, if you heard the wo...
