One other thing: I use my hands a lot to form pictures of what I am trying to say. The movement and the visual cues help me to retrieve the word.

I woke up this morning thinking about how a university lecturer humiliated me in front of the whole class by sneering at me and putting me down for using my hands when I talk. It wasn't until afterwards that I realised I should have put in a formal complaint about her.

The first thread, which I started in 1999, about dyslexia is
here

http://www.mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=16304&messages=61

Helen