Dyslexia Project

[carjug]

I have worked up a project on dyslexia, and i want to get some opinions from people with this reading problem. If you know any dyslexic people, would you please show them this website, www.geocities.com/carjug and get their opinions on it. My e-mail is on the website.
The project is a color alphabet rendering of Wizard of Oz. I have done the first two pages of this fantastic book, but I need some input from people with reading trouble before I take this any further. It might just work. E-mail me please, I doubt I will check back here for some time.
Thanx, carjug

[dorfman]

i have a mild case of mathmatic dyslexia

it stinks becouse alot of tests are failed becouse of small mixing of 2 numbers...but good thing its a mild case or i would be in like e.s.e math

[sarah.miller]

Interesting... doesn;t do anything for me. I'm dyslexic ( now an adult) and having never come across let alone lernt Funix (sp?) It wouldn't make any thing easier for me.
More intersting was your second page. Again I didn;t find it helped, in fact I found it quite hard to read, and I have good reading skill s its my short term sequential memory and my spelling and hand writing that are my biggest problems. The rainbow of colours kept makeing my eyes jump around the page and I found it hard to follow the text in a linear fashion nessesary for comprehension. My personal prefered colour scheme is dark blue or black text on a pale muted yellow background, better for me than on white.
hope you get more comments to feed into your project.
Sarah

[BornUgly]

I'm not dyslexic, but my sister is, I'll get her to take a look.

Is there a pattern to the smileys/squares/etc?

[podzol]

My problem is like Dorfmans. I am a terrible reader as a result. I learn most by ear and by doing. Having ahearing loss, I am suprised I know much about anything! I was taking honors calc and remedial math simultaneously my freshman year in college. I often have to compensate like that similarly even today.

People with full blown dyslexia get can get parts of words flipped, even syntax in sentences. I flip letters and numbers over, which makes computations difficult. I do not know left and right well either.

Your use of color is novel, I don't know of any other language that uses color like that. If people are having a hard time reading, it may be because brains aren't taught to use color that way. Interesting idea, though. You couls make just that a project in itself!

Good luck!

[unijesse]

im not dislexic sometimes when i spell i dont put the last letter of a word in. its usually only with long words and it isnt something where im writing and get distracted then forget the letter or something, i start writing then go back ad read it and i left out one or two last letters.

does anybody know what it is? is it just something i do or is it something wrong?

[unisteez]

i have a mild case of mathmatic dyslexia

it stinks becouse alot of tests are failed becouse of small mixing of 2 numbers...but good thing its a mild case or i would be in like e.s.e math

same here.

[dorkybarb]

just so everyone knows, when you flip numbers that is called dyscalculia (sp?). the reason i know this?
because i have a slight case of it also.

since you are looking for people who flip letters, sorry i can't help!

[James_Potter]

When I read the first sentence really quick, I thought it said, "I woke up and had dyslexia." It was funny.
Someone in Arts Fest, a talent show at my school, who is dyslexic, did stand up comedy, and he talked about his dyslexia...he was like, I can get away with all sorts of things in school because I'm dyslexic. I can spell 'cat' with a q, and the teacher just says, "Good job, Matt!!" then I go away and say, ha ha, I just spelled cat with a q, and got away with it.

and so forth. It was so funny.

[U-Turn]

Great ideas! I especially like the 2nd page, which may help alert a person to flips after enough reading to establish a strong sense of color sequence in a word. It would be easy to implement in an ebook or the like.

I've never been diagnosed with dyslexia, but I do often end up with flips and such in both letters and numbers. Might be worth a look - what is a test for dyslexia like?

[James_Potter]

seems like a lot of unicyclists are dyslexic...I wonder why. interesting.

[frogger]

I have dyslexia but it did not bother me.I have trouble spelling.