Looking for samples of dyslexic concepts?

Question

I am a special education teacher. Another regular education teacher does not "believe" in dyslexia. A long time ago I had a paper that demonstrated what dyslexia is like by "mixing" up words and letters on a page. It was used to try to demonstrate what a dyslexic child may be seeing when he/she reads. Does anyone have a copy of this?

Answer 1

In the 1970s, a new hypothesis emerged that dyslexia stems from a deficit in phonological processing or difficulty in recognizing that spoken words are formed by discrete phonemes (for example, that the word CAT comes from the sounds [k], and [t]). As a result, affected individuals have difficulty associating these sounds with the visual letters that make up written words. Key studies of the phonological deficit hypothesis include the finding that the strongest predictor of reading success in school age children is phonological awareness, and that phonological awareness instruction can improve reading scores in children with reading difficulties.

Thomas G. West, towards the end of the 20th century, suggested that many dyslexics are visual spatial thinkers who are wired for the big picture — designed to process information in pictures rather than words. West believed that our education system is inadvertently biased against the "Einstein gene", and thereby all our most original and gifted thinkers. To support this view he has examined the difficult early experiences within education of five Nobel prize winners. or near-winners: Einstein, Edison, Marconi, Churchill and Faraday.