shiit at spelling

100200 shih

mojopolo wrote: »

My OH and two son's have great difficulty spelling but are very bright in lots of other areas. They are very strategic and good at seeing the bigger picture. They also have a great sense of direction.

Both sons have been assessed as having dyslexia - but I strongly believe that their brain just works in a different way from other other people; that's why they excel in some things but struggle with spelling.

A big issue for all of them is a lack of confidence - many people assume that because they can't spell that they are stupid (they even think this this! and I continually have to reinforce what they are good at).

I came across this video a few weeks ago - it's quite insightful into the world of bad spellers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPhV9SyVmwA&sns=em

Been dyslex is just , your brain been wire a little different, I have dyslexia , cant spell for **** but I have a 1:1 average in Accountant & heading into doing a masters , so were not stupid , just look at the bigger picture :)4

looksee

looksee wrote: »

Not sure what siginfied means, and my spellchecker doesn't like it!

Yes it is true that if two words are interchangeable in a sentence - it can't sort out there and their, not on this message board anyway, Word can sort it. If we just sorted the worst of the spellings it would be a good start though.

Really though, how hard is it to just type a word that you are really stuck on into a new tab, it takes a couple of seconds and you will get spelling, meaning and pseudonyms (I just had to check up the spelling of pseudonym because my brain fried )

It is signified....sorry:o

DEFTLEFTHAND

JFK was another famous dyslexic.

The King of Moo

gurramok wrote: »

I still can't spell or pronounce that damn word "pheunomon" or however its actually spelt without using a spell-checker.
I dunno but the older you get, you tend to lose the ability to spell that well or maybe its because we're all using computers to spell for us instead of pen on paper to help us spell?

There's something to that: research has indicated that we generally learn more when we take notes with pen and paper, and not by typing.
But why don't you take advantage of computers? If you misspell "phenomenon," use the spellcheck, or google it. You may need to do it a few times, but it's very quick and easy to do, and you'll pretty quickly learn the correct spelling and never forget it.
I always google a word if I'm not sure of how to spell it. Maybe it's just me, but if I know I'm doing something wrong or am lacking some correct information, I'll look it up.

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

W.B Yeats had problems with grammer and spelling. He was dyslexic though I think.

100200 shih wrote: »

Albet Einstein was dyslexic , could not spell

That's well and good, but I don't think anyone's suggesting that dyslexic people can't be creative or intelligent, or even that non-dyslexic poor spellers can't be intelligent or creative.