Dyslexia

[IggyB]

Does dyslexia pesent itself physically in anyway, e.g. can you measure it in a less subjective way than the traditional used reading and writing tests.

[sft42]

No. As simple and straight forward as that.

[IggyB]

brain wave pattern affected??? - anything other than poor wrtting skills apparent from sufferers

[IggyB]

in a who wants to be a millionaire style - how certain are you sft42 ... 75% 95% 100%?

[woofgang]

There may be difficulty in other analogue skills, learning to tell the time from an analogue watch for instance or left and right discrimination. There's also a thing called "clumsy child syndrome" which I believe can go with dyslexia although not always...you know the kind of thing, finds it harder than others to catch a ball, has difficulty with a skipping rope.

[IggyB]

so in what way can we say that dyslexia is not related to intelligence when in every way we test dyslexia we are testing skills / intelligence. To clarify i am not calling dyslexics stupid I am just trying to assertain they are tested and what truely sets them aside from those with low IQ's

[woofgang]

because they function at a "normal" level may have good verbal skills, and even if they don't, can demonstrate understanding to anyone prepared to listen, be able to problem solve in their heads, can understand information if given to them verbally

[woofgang]

also reading and writing tests used are about skills...copying, reading what is there, rather than intelligence...understanding what is there

[IggyB]

so now for the "killer" question - if we can measure it, see it or it would appear test for it ... in what why does dyslexia actually exist?

[IggyB]

in what *way* does dyslexia exist?

[woofgang]

It exists in damaged or different linkages in the brain...in the same way that eidetic imagery exists in people who have that facility. If we could see the electric impulses flowing around different brains, then we could "see" dyslexia, amongst other things