I had problems getting my words out. If people spoke directly to me, I understood what they said. But when the grownups got to yakking really fast by themselves, it just sounded like 'oi oi.' I thought grownups had a separate language. I've now figured out I was not hearing the hard consonant sounds.
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can hear spoken sounds and begin to recognize different combinations of language sounds.
Dyslexia is not due to a lack of intelligence, it's a lack of access. It's like, if you're dyslexic, you have all the information you need, but find it harder to process.
From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds.
I have a particular affliction. I am unable to say a word I can't spell.
I am an educator and neuroscientist who studies how the brain learns to read and what happens when a young brain can't learn to read easily, as in the childhood learning challenge, developmental dyslexia.
A new era in the physiological investigation of linguistic sounds was opened up by X-ray photography.
Letter scrambling and trouble reading is just a small part of dyslexia. It is also an auditory processing problem.
A sound waiting to be a word.
Now the identification of individual sounds by phonetic observation is an artificial way of proceeding.
