Re: OT: Dyslexia (was Re: Announcement: New auxlang "Choton")

Ph. D. scripsit:

> The original poster replied that having English spelled
> phonemically (in Shaw) would help dyslexics more than a lack
> of distinctiveness. He pointed out that dyslexia is rarer among
> native speakers of Hebrew (which has several letters which
> look *very* similar) than among native speakers of English.
> He offered no proof. As I know nothing more about dyslexia
> than what I read in the mass media, I didn't challenge him.
There can be no doubt that dyslexia is widely overdiagnosed;
much of it is mere incompetent teaching, and what remains is a
mixture of different syndromes.  Hebrew is fairly straightforward
to learn to read (though spelling it is another thing altogether),
and it doesn't surprise me that dyslexia is rarer among native speakers.

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