After all, there’s more of us than of them. But to live, apparently, is to war with trolls. It just seemed like a smart thing to do, long before the trolls began slouching en masse towards the comments sections to be born. Also, even then, there was something about online “communities” that made me want to keep it all at arm’s length. A pseudonym allowed me take it exactly as seriously as it deserved - namely, not at all. I chose to blog pseudonymously partly because I’m an introvert, but mostly because I originally intended the whole blogging thing to be a lark. It was fun while it lasted, but I never want to hear the words “Flarf” or “School of Quietude” ever, ever again. I was a poetry blogger for a while during the Aughts. Oh, and I was also a customer service representative way back when people still bought things using land-line telephones and glossy four-color catalogs printed on paper and bound with staples.
#Letterspace definition portable#
Over the years, I have been, among other things, a typographer, a tutor & substitute teacher for middle school & high school, a singer/songwriter, and a repair technician for Macintosh portable computers. So I have returned to the Twin Cities, for good. But eventually I discovered to my surprise and dismay that to be happy, I need four sharply delineated seasons - especially if two of them are seemingly endless and absurdly brutal in their extremes. Stickers on my suitcase, stamps in my passport. For most of that time, I felt like George Bailey if he had managed to get out of Bedford Falls. At one time or another, I’ve lived in (among other places) Santa Fe, Salt Lake City, NYC, and PDX. But with the right supports, dyslexic individuals can become highly successful students and adults.I’m Robert van Vliet. Scientific research shows differences in brain connectivity between dyslexic and typical reading children, providing a neurological basis for why reading fluently is a struggle for those with dyslexia.ĭyslexia can’t be “cured” – it is lifelong. While people with dyslexia are slow readers, they often, paradoxically, are very fast and creative thinkers with strong reasoning abilities.ĭyslexia is also very common, affecting 20 percent of the population and representing 80– 90 percent of all those with learning disabilities. In fact, dyslexia is an unexpected difficulty in reading in an individual who has the intelligence to be a much better reader.
But these difficulties have no connection to their overall intelligence. And when they have trouble with that step, all the other steps are harder.ĭyslexic children and adults struggle to read fluently, spell words correctly and learn a second language, among other challenges. People with dyslexia have trouble matching the letters they see on the page with the sounds those letters and combinations of letters make.
It requires our brains to connect letters to sounds, put those sounds in the right order, and pull the words together into sentences and paragraphs we can read and comprehend.
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