Maybe dyslexia is genetic. Maybe it's learning disability.
I think it's a misunderstanding.
Our brains look for clues for how things work. Imagine if a child was raised by someone with a limp, and that person was the only person they were ever exposed to. I imagine that child would walk with a limp. Urbo has an article listing 7 "wild" children who didn't have human contact during the most important part of their development.
In America, we've had early learning videos that show a word up on the screen. Someone reads the word, but without any indicator that the word is being read left to right. If that child's brain assumes that the word is a picture, like Chinese symbol-based writing, then their brain focuses on the shape of the word. As the child is taught their letters, they learn how to make the shapes that create words, but their brain still treats each word like a picture.
The first step to overcoming dyslexia is learning the sounds each letter and phonogram makes. Phonogram drills are especially helpful. But it's not enough.
Remember, the brain is used to analyzing the word like a picture. It looks at it as a whole.
The word Habitat might look like:
I think it's a misunderstanding.
Our brains look for clues for how things work. Imagine if a child was raised by someone with a limp, and that person was the only person they were ever exposed to. I imagine that child would walk with a limp. Urbo has an article listing 7 "wild" children who didn't have human contact during the most important part of their development.
In America, we've had early learning videos that show a word up on the screen. Someone reads the word, but without any indicator that the word is being read left to right. If that child's brain assumes that the word is a picture, like Chinese symbol-based writing, then their brain focuses on the shape of the word. As the child is taught their letters, they learn how to make the shapes that create words, but their brain still treats each word like a picture.
The first step to overcoming dyslexia is learning the sounds each letter and phonogram makes. Phonogram drills are especially helpful. But it's not enough.
Remember, the brain is used to analyzing the word like a picture. It looks at it as a whole.
The word Habitat might look like:
The further in school they get, the more complicated the words, and less often they are used. That's when memorization starts to really fall apart.
Unless the brain is rewired to read left to right, reading still fails. If you have someone practice reading left to right, you don't know how often they are recalling or even guessing a word instead of reading it.
You overcome this by making up non-sense words. There is no guessing or recalling because the words don't exist. It forces the brain to start treating words like codes, where certain letter combinations make different sounds.
The game is played 2 ways.
First by saying a made up word outloud and having them put together the letters to make that word. It's especially helpful when tweaking it.
Schlubub also opens the way to explore rules For example, if the word is: plujack, they might spell plujak or plujac. Both are phonetically correct, but don't look quite right because ck is the phonogram used for the sound "k" after a single vowel, like sick, truck, back, and sock.
And the word associated with that picture must be memorized, not sounded out. Yikes.
training a brain to read from left to right.
Schlubub is super easy to play and makes overcoming dyslexia so much easier because it's a fun way to do spelling drills.
Just ask any coach or teacher on how to master a skill. Sometimes a player or student comes to them and they learned how to do something the wrong way. It takes drill after drill for them to relearn how to do it properly.
Schlubub starts with picking one letter or phonogram, going over the sound it makes. Then you make a phonogram family, writing down as many words as you can that use that phonogram.
Then you play schlubub, where you take turns making up words using any phonograms learned up to that point. Schulubub fights dyslexia because there is no guessing what the word is. The reader is forced to work through the word one sound at a time.
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Unless the brain is rewired to read left to right, reading still fails. If you have someone practice reading left to right, you don't know how often they are recalling or even guessing a word instead of reading it.
You overcome this by making up non-sense words. There is no guessing or recalling because the words don't exist. It forces the brain to start treating words like codes, where certain letter combinations make different sounds.
The game is played 2 ways.
First by saying a made up word outloud and having them put together the letters to make that word. It's especially helpful when tweaking it.
Schlubub also opens the way to explore rules For example, if the word is: plujack, they might spell plujak or plujac. Both are phonetically correct, but don't look quite right because ck is the phonogram used for the sound "k" after a single vowel, like sick, truck, back, and sock.
And the word associated with that picture must be memorized, not sounded out. Yikes.
training a brain to read from left to right.
Schlubub is super easy to play and makes overcoming dyslexia so much easier because it's a fun way to do spelling drills.
Just ask any coach or teacher on how to master a skill. Sometimes a player or student comes to them and they learned how to do something the wrong way. It takes drill after drill for them to relearn how to do it properly.
Schlubub starts with picking one letter or phonogram, going over the sound it makes. Then you make a phonogram family, writing down as many words as you can that use that phonogram.
Then you play schlubub, where you take turns making up words using any phonograms learned up to that point. Schulubub fights dyslexia because there is no guessing what the word is. The reader is forced to work through the word one sound at a time.
A downloadable version of this game is coming. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified when it's available.
