[senco-forum] READING UPSIDE DOWN

naomi at sen-burgess.demon.co.uk

Hello Margaret from Brisbane.

I have a friend with an identical reading pattern/difficulty. Unfortunately
she declined my offer to assess her..........I was fascinated. Interestingly
she is an extremely talented artist and sees  all her designs in the correct
spatial orientation.

Her own support strategies related mainly to  hearing her children read, for
which she learned their current books by heart so that they would not know
she couldn't read, when she read to them, and also so she could correct them
when they read to her...altho only whole words,

sorry I don't have any particular insights.

But I think it is safe to assume that it is nothing to do with relative
postions of continents on the globe

Naomi   (ed psych)

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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:07:09 +1000
From: "Margaret Hardy" <dyslexia at bigpond.com>
Subject: [senco-forum] Upside down reading
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 I have recently worked with an adult whose reading level is only at an
early primary stage but her fluency when reading upside down is markedly
improved. She only discovered this as an adult. She is also better able
to decode unfamiliar words if they are presented upside down. Lines on
paper cause her great visual stress so she writes on blank paper. She
has already been tested for scotopic sensitivity and tints do not help.
Does anyone have experience of this and any useful strategies? 

Margaret
Brisbane