Hi ya kids:
One way to understand the machanics of a learning disablity from the inside, is right left confusion. There is very little more simple than right and left, this side, that, my right and left hands have been with me, well, as long as I can remember, in fact, intellectualy I know the difference and can tell them appart (the left one is the one with the wedding ring and like most boat bilders, all the scars). On the other hand, it is imposible for me to tell right or left by reflex after all these many years. Now, that is a two item system. Imagine the diffuculty of a twenty six item system with an infinite number of araingements. NO WAY I can make a reflex out of recognising a word, no matter how many times I look at it. Funny though, my spelling is even worce if I write by hand, if you can imagine that, because as a musician I have developed a small degree of mussle memory associated with typing. So all who have children whose synapsis don't fire very well, after they put the electords all over the kid's heads and find out the problem, get em a computer and fight the school for the right to that very reasonable accomodation.
All the best to all
Larry