Date: 25th Feb 2011
Time: 7-9pm
Venue: International Plaza, 10 Anson Road
Here are some of the video clips I captured during the talk. They are not fantastic quality as we took them using still image cameras and my iPhone4. We are looking for volunteer videographers who can help us produce better videos for all to watch and learn from.
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This is a reading exercise in which the letters are systematically coded as an illustration.
In a everyday reading, we have to decode the letters that we read. Then, we make sense of what we read. There is a lot of processing required in the brains and the rest of the body. However, most of these processes are low-level processing, like walking or munching. For accomplished readers, this happens automatically and becomes a transparent process.
A dyslexic person would have difficulty doing that decoding. When you are trying to figure out the cryptic text, what you experience gives a glimpse to what a dyslexic person deals with each time s/he reads.
Moreover, reading ability has as little to do with intelligence as colour-blindness does. You can't read a text doesn't mean that you are stupid. You know that, but the rest of the world doesn't, and treats you like you are. Such is the frustration that dyslexics are going through as you read these lines.
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Quiz:
Kpio boe Nbsz cpui qfut. Kpio ibt b eph.
boe Nbsz ibt b eph.
R: Xip ibt dbu bt qfu?
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hint:b=a, o=n, e=d
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This is what happens, having to decode what you read everytime.
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This is a comic relief, but also an illustration of how some people are not quite capable of contextual reasoning.
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This is about people with weak or overly flexible joints...
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This clip speaks about the effects of squabbling parents have on children's ability to learn.
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MORE LATER... STILL A VERY PRIMITIVE BLOG POST.
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