Dyslexia, is there the same problem reading musical notes.?

Question

Hope I am not offending anyone, but I am curious.

Answer 1

It depends a little bit on what type of dyslexia you are dealing with.

Some types make it difficult to focus on more than one small area of a page at a time, so you could read the notes clearly but only a couple at a time, so you couldn't read ahead very well.

Some types will have words appear like they are on a wavy line instead of straight, so I'd imagine that would affect music as well. Others are the stereotype of swapping letters around, but I don't know if that one affects music or not.

It would be interesting to find out. I know my husband is dyslexic, and he plays music very well but has never really learned to read music properly, in part due to his dyslexia. I don't think it would have been impossible for him to learn (he did, after all, learn to read well despite the difficulties) but yes, I'd imagine it would produce some challenges!

Answer 2

Im a specialist teacher of dyslexic/dyspraxic students. We spoke about this last week in class. In fact some of the students, whilst struggling with the de coding and understanding of text, can look at a line of written musical notation and work out the melody. Others struggle as much with the de coding of music as they do with text. We encourage a multi-sensory approach and so many nof our students learn ato play a musical insytrument or to sing but not all of them read music. Dyslexia and dyspraxia are individual and multi-faceted conditions; one size does not fit all.

Answer 3

Yup, its all sequencing problems. Some people have a harder time to sequence things than others, or some people can't sequence what they read at all.

Myself, I have a hard time with reading and writing math. I reverse numbers all the time, but letters are almost always fine. This became almost amusing doing a chapter on Quantum Mechanics in university chemistry. I could explain the theory better than anyone in my class, but I couldn't write a thing and get it right because its COMPLEX math equations.

You can have trouble to sequence any type of symbols.

Answer 4

That's a good question! ( use spell check ALOT! )

I am a little Lysdexic! I mean Dyslexic at times and I also have played the Tenor Saxophone for years and have had no problems at all.

see, when you play music it what you read on the paper HAS to be connected with a sound in order for it to make since and because music can be played A-tonal there is no wrong way to write music there for its hard to misread music unless you just not paying attention to what your doing. not only that but the reading and the sound is associated with a physical motion of your fingers hitting the keys on your instrument to create the sound you need there for you have 3 of your senses working together to "read" music.. not just your eyes.

when you read, you don't have to have sound or much physical movement at all associated with the words there for your limits of speed at which you read are only limited by your personal ability's so you are able to cross words or mix sentences.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I think it may be different because of the layout! However it depends on level and what areas individual has difficulty with. For ome the notes may jump around as letter and numbers often do but becayse they are symbols, on lines etc it can be easier to read!

Good question-never thought of it before :)

Answer 7

For my daughter learning to read music was very hard, When she was in grammar school and took flute since she couldn't read notes her teacher taught her by having her listen to what he played. My daughter is an audio learner and that it's much easier if she listens to things. In school one of the modifications that she has it that she can have people read things to her like her test questions and she can answer by verbally and someone writes what she dictates.

Answer 8

Id assume so.

Learning to read is learning to decode written (e.g., visually coded) language. Dyslexia effects brains ability for "visual decoding".


Dyslexics untie! (joke)

Answer 9

Refer to this website:
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