My brother in law has dyslexia, and it is probably a genetic thing. One of his daughters, for example, has dyslexia as well. On the other hand, he is pretty smart, and despite his dyslexia, he managed to become an MD mastering a subject that requires a lot of reading.
The thing is that the human brain is extremely plastic. When one metho…
My brother in law has dyslexia, and it is probably a genetic thing. One of his daughters, for example, has dyslexia as well. On the other hand, he is pretty smart, and despite his dyslexia, he managed to become an MD mastering a subject that requires a lot of reading.
The thing is that the human brain is extremely plastic. When one method becomes impossible, the brain can often figure out an alternative. For example, there was a patient who had a stroke and lost his ability to speak. He could, however, read written text aloud. He managed to converse by imagining what he was going to say typewritten across the forehead of the person he was speaking with and reading that aloud. This is obviously not the easiest way to converse, but he took advantage of the parts of his brain that were still working properly and their connections.
Some people may have a genetic problem doing one thing or another, but can take advantage of training and alternate methods to accomplish things. People have different learning styles and think using different types of metaphors - visual, linguistic, mechanistic, haptic - but they can be equally functional and equally expert. I'm sure that blind friend of mine back in college thought about derivatives in a way unlike mine, but she passed the same calculus course.
My brother in law has dyslexia, and it is probably a genetic thing. One of his daughters, for example, has dyslexia as well. On the other hand, he is pretty smart, and despite his dyslexia, he managed to become an MD mastering a subject that requires a lot of reading.
The thing is that the human brain is extremely plastic. When one method becomes impossible, the brain can often figure out an alternative. For example, there was a patient who had a stroke and lost his ability to speak. He could, however, read written text aloud. He managed to converse by imagining what he was going to say typewritten across the forehead of the person he was speaking with and reading that aloud. This is obviously not the easiest way to converse, but he took advantage of the parts of his brain that were still working properly and their connections.
Some people may have a genetic problem doing one thing or another, but can take advantage of training and alternate methods to accomplish things. People have different learning styles and think using different types of metaphors - visual, linguistic, mechanistic, haptic - but they can be equally functional and equally expert. I'm sure that blind friend of mine back in college thought about derivatives in a way unlike mine, but she passed the same calculus course.