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From: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Newsgroups: net.cog-eng
Subject: Re: dyslexia (really handedness)
Message-ID: <265@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-Nov-85 13:49:01 EST
Article-I.D.: polaris.265
Posted: Sat Nov  9 13:49:01 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Nov-85 05:42:12 EST
References: <2246@iddic.UUCP> <481@cxsea.UUCP> <3508@utah-cs.UUCP> <703@osu-eddie.UUCP> <2348@flame.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: herbie@polaris.UUCP (Herb Chong)
Organization: IBM TJ Watson RC
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Summary: 

In article <2348@flame.warwick.UUCP> kay@flame.UUCP (Kay Dekker) writes:
>In article <703@osu-eddie.UUCP> zwicky@osu-eddie.UUCP (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) writes:
>>I am not myself dyslexic, but do suffer some (probably)
>>related difficulties. I am a non-righthanded female with
>>pretty much all of the symptoms of dyslexia except the 
>>perceptual problems; I read and write normally. However, I
>>have a good bit of difficulty with right and left. This has a
>>surprising effect on my desires in user-interfaces.
>
>Aha! somebody else has my problem... interesting that having difficulty
>deciding "which one is left" might be associated with dyslexia: could some
>kind cog-enger inform the net about the symptoms? 

this was discussed in some detail in net.kids about 3 months ago.
the prime cause is having been converted from left-handed to right-handed
at some point in life.  i don't have an archive of net.kids,
but someone might.

Herb Chong...

I'm still user-friendly -- I don't byte, I nybble....

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