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From: lady@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Lee Lady)
Newsgroups: sci.lang,comp.cog-eng,sci.psychology
Subject: Re: Spelling and Perceptual Mode (was: Effects of poor writing?)
Summary: NLP discovered the secret to good spelling years ago.
Keywords: spelling, NLP, neurolinguistic programming
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Date: 23 May 89 20:55:52 GMT
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ENOUGH!  I try to restrain myself, really I do.  I have kept my mouth shut 
(keyboard shut) up to now, but this is too much!  

In article <2055@arctic.nprdc.arpa> ellis@nprdc.arpa (John Ellis) writes:

>        -- As I posted a couple of weeks ago, research has 
>discovered that poor spelling is a form of dyslexia that is an
>inherited trait -- the problem is that some people have difficulty
>visualizing letter and numbers (e.g. phone numbers) in the correct sequences
>

Spelling was one of the earliest things investigated by NLP.  The NLP 
"spelling strategy" must be ten years old now, and still people are simply 
pretending it doesn't exist.  

NLP claims that there are two sorts of mental images:  Remembered images 
("eidetic" images), which reproduce things seen before, and _constructed_ 
images.  NLP claims that most people's eyes move up and to the left when 
looking at ("accessing") eidetic images, and up and to the right when 
accessing constructed images.  (Left-handers are occasionally the reverse.)  
If you watch a poor speller trying to spell a word you will very likely see 
his eyes (or even his whole head) move up and to his right.  Whereas a good 
speller's eyes will move to the left.  

If you want to teach someone how to be a good speller, simply tell him to 
stop *imagining* what the word should look like and instead *remember* what 
it looks like, the same way he remembers what his mother's face looks like, 
or what the door to his office looks like, or what the map of the United 
States looks like.  You can suggest that it will probably help if you moves 
his eyes up and to the left.  Obviously he should start out with simple 
words, but once he learns the basic strategy his progress can be quite fast.  

-- 
	                                       Lee Lady
        lady@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu            Dept of Mathematics
	lady@uhccux.bitnet                     University of Hawaii
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