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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

O.K., so where are you disagreeing with what I said?

"Learning styles different between humans and neurological processing 
differs
between various humans.  So, while dyslexia is, in part, a learning style,
it isn't only a learning style but is also a visual and neurological
problem."

No where did I say it was a disability.  It IS a different way of learning. 
It is a different way of seeing and processing.  It can be a problem for 
some folks.  Doesn't make it a disability.

Your example of your daughter clearly demonstrates what I said, different 
learning style, different visual and neurological processing of information 
and that *real* dyslexia exists.  Although you'll have to explain what the 
heck the knitting and crochetting have to do with it.

Lynda

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> One of my daughters displays all the classic indicators of dyslexia the 
> most
> stark of which is that she sees figures and words backwards.  Mechanically 
> and
> invariably most numbers and letters are written backwards and the order of
> words and numbers are remembered backwards.  When someone leaves a phone 
> number
> that daughter has written down, we know to dial it backwards.  (and she 
> has
> all the rest as well).  As unschoolers we left her alone to find her way 
> about
> that.  She was reading fluently by eight.  Also, and my story is it's 
> because
> we didn't interfer with her, she can look at one of her dolls or a person, 
> and
> recently a puppy, one time and  sew, knit, or crochet a garment for them 
> and
> it fits perfectly the first time.