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> From: lcs Mixmaster Remailer <mix@anon.lcs.mit.edu>
> Subject: Plot of the Platypus

> In fact, many disorders of reading (alexia) and writing (agraphia)
> exist, and are sourced to small lesions in different areas of the brain.
> Functionality is so distributed physically, in fact, that there are
> even particular lesions which can disrupt reading of phonetic kana
> Japanese but not ideographic kanji Japanese.

This is only part of the story. Most persons afflicted with these sorts of
disorders are not caused by any sort of lesion but rather a geneticly based
anomaly in brain development. Dyslexia is a prime example.


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At 11:22 AM 8/23/97 -0500, Jim Choate wrote:
>This is only part of the story. Most persons afflicted with these sorts of
>disorders are not caused by any sort of lesion but rather a geneticly based
>anomaly in brain development. Dyslexia is a prime example.

Dyslexia's harder to help, but in an online environment you _can_
help agraphia (or bad typing) by using spell checkers.  Sure, the
spell checker may occasionally miss misspelled words, and may "fix"
words that were correctly spelled, but you're still probably ahead of the 
game.  And they may not recognize "genetically" either, but it's a start.

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