How dyslexia Happens
Apparently, some people are born with a genetic code that enables them to utilize the part of thier brain that alters and creates perceptions. Being born with this genetic code doesn't give dyslexia, it only makes it possible for them to develop it. this theory explains why dyslexia seems to follow family lines and why many experts consider it to be hereditary.
Developing Dyslexia involves some rather complex steps, and the timing has to be precise. In fact, developing dyslexia is so complicated that it's a wonder anyone can do it.
An Early Start
A dyslexic didn't start to develop dyslexia in third grade or First Grade, or even Kindergarden. The Process began long before that....
Probably it is between the ages of three and six months that dyslexics begin the development of thier special abilities, skills and deficiencies...
The potencial Dyslexic in Infancy
Psychologist say a three-month-old infant is just beginning to recognize facial features. that meansthe infant can focus the eyes and control convergence of the two mental images they produce; otherwise it couldn't even se a face. Although a three-moths-old can see, the child hasn't yet learned to control its neck muscles in order to look in a certain direction. the child simply sees what ever happens to move into its field of vision.
Let's create a scenario of a potential Dyslexic, P.D. for short. Lets make little P.D. three months old and put him in a crib. From his perspective, all little P.D can see is the end of a chest of drawers with someone's elbow sticking out past the edge.
If little P.D. happens to trigger the brain cells that alter his perception, he will no longer see what his eyes see; he will see something else. At that point, if P.D. is curious as to who the elbow belongs to, it would be very easy for him to simply add the other features to the elbow ad see the face of the person. when he sees the face, he can recognize wether or not it's the person that feeds him....
(The Gift of Dyslexia by Ronald Davis p73-75)
Picture thinking
The primary thought process of the dyslexic is a nonverbal picture thinking mode that occurs at 32 pictures per second. In a second, a verbal thinker could have between two and five thoughts (individual words conceptualized) while a picture thinker would have 32 (individual pictures conceptualized). Mathematically, this works out to between six and ten times as many thoughts.
There is also the principle expressed by the old adage "A picture is worth a thousand words." A picture thinker could think a single picture of a concept that might require hundreds or thousands of words to describe. Einstein's theory of relativity came to him in a daydream in which he traveled beside a beam of light. His vision lasted only seconds, yet spawned scores of textbooks and attempt to explain it. To Einstein, the concept was simple; to the average person, it is nearly incomprehensible.
Picture thinking is estimated to be, overall, 400 to 2,000 times faster that verbal thinking, obviously it varies with the complexity of the individual pictures. But there is more to it that just a difference in speed. picture thinking is more thorough, deeper and more comprehensive.
Verbal thought is linear in time, performed by making sentences one word at a time, whereas picture thinking is evolutionary. The picture grows as the mental process adds meore subconcepts to the overall concept.
Pictured thoughts are as thorough or deep as these mental pictures are accurate in portraying the meanings of the words that the person would use to describe the same thoughts.
We could say pictured thoughts are of substance while verbal thoughts are significant sound.
(A gift of dyslexia, by Ronald davis page 100-101)
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