hich is not at all surprising, given the brain's need to accommodate the requirements of such different modes of operation. It is apparent that both strategies are needed in the long run. For some time now, human culture has been almost entirely dominated by tools and technologies that support the sequential brain strategy-linked with words. However, quite suddenly, in historical terms, a new set of tools has been dumped into our laps. We should expect that moving from one strategy to the other will have powerful consequences.
"Thinking like Einstein" - Thomas G. West
Advantages accompanying dyslexic processing style:
Reflection of a different pattern of brain organisation and information processing that creates strengths as well as challenges.
Strengths and challenges are inextricably connected: dyslexic challenges are best understood as trade-offs made in pursuit of other, larger cognitive gains.
Often strengths in big picture, holistic, or top-down processing, though may struggle with fine detail processing.
Many show strengths in Material reasoning or the ability to mentally create and manipulate an interconnected series of three-dimensional spatial perspectives.
Many show strengths in Interconnected reasoning, or the ability to perceive more distance or unusual connections, to reason using interdisciplinary approaches, or to detect context and gist.
Many excel in Narrative reasoning, or the ability to perceive information as mental “scenes” that they construct from fragments of past personal experience (episodic memory).
Many shows strengths in Dynamic reasoning, or the ability to accurately reconstruct past events that they didn't witness or to predict future states, often using insights based reasoning and “episodic simulation”, particularly in conditions that are changing, ambiguous, or incompletely known, and where “qualitative” practical solutions are required.
Acronym used for four areas of strength: MIND.
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late and preview plausible outcomes of inventions or various courses of action.
It is especially valuable in situations where all the relevant variables are incompletely known, changing or ambiguous.
Its particular power lies in the fact that it is based on matching patterns that are similar in form to the original observations, rather than on abstract generalisations.
Often employs insight-based processing, which is powerful but often slow, can appear passive, and may result in difficulty explaining intervening steps.
Individuals with dyslexia who possess prominent D-Strengths often thrive in precisely the kinds of rapidly changing and ambiguous settings that others find the most difficult and confusing.
Occupations and fields
Entrepreneur, Chief Executive, finance, small business owner, business consultants, logistics, accounting, economics, medicine, farmer.
What to include and leave out of writing
I, N, or D-strengths may include excessive or irrelevant details because they often see so many connections and levels of meaning between ideas. For students who have difficulty narrowing down their ideas, it often helps to decide in advance what the focus of their writing will be. One useful strategy for limiting focus is to use the " 5 W/H " approach, where the student decides which of the potential questions (i.e., who, what, when, where, why or how) to answer and which to ignore.
People with strong verbal imagery and or particular weaknesses in word retrieval or verbal output often include too few details. This can be either because they “see” so much detail in their heads that they forget how little they have communicated to the audience or because it takes so much effort for them to put their thoughts into words that they experience working memory overload before they can get everything down on paper. Students with problems of this kind often benefit from reading their work aloud or being asked to form a mental picture of their subject using only the words on the page.
Information taken from: Eide, B & Eide, F. (2011) The Dyslexic Advantage. London: Hay House UK Ltd.
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ion miles and yet we still see no New Stars in[DEED]. Having been born a left-handed mirror-writing, right-brained visual thinker, I have been particularly fortunate to have had an educationally stimulated journey of life, which has resulted in my own personal development of being able to manipulate multidimensional space/time in my head and having long-since promoted the Art of the Possible of so-called Dyslexic Artists, whilst practising the art of Taichiquan, I am now a great supporter of Daniel Keown's very own concept of the Spark in the Machine, which [IT]self refers to the
Art of Acupuncture and it's very connection to the gravitational field, which prevents us flying off into space, as we've travelled that 240 trillion miles.
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