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Well, all I really know is what my friend and his Dad
have said about it, his dad is k c 7 k g o, and he has
ordinary run-of-the-mill dislexia himself. Might be
interesting to get you guys together, sounds like you
know something about it. Mike Senior, kc7 k g o has
been pretty politcal about getting the code
requirement nixed, with n c i.
--- [log in to unmask] wrote:
> If I recall the message, it seems that something was
> said about "dysnomia".
> This is actually a problem with calling the names of
> objects. It may more
> correctly be called anomia. As a speech pathologist
> I work with this. In
> itself it is not a problem for Morse unless it is
> severe enough that letter
> names cannot be called. If it is that severe,
> language is usually involved and
> you're more correctly talking about aphasia than a
> learning disability.
> Actually, dysnomia is more correctly catagorized as
> either a central auditory
> dysfunction or as an aphasoid disorder. Then again
> since dyslexia must be made
> as a medical diagnosis you sometimes get odd
> diagnoses from physicians. This is
> all complicated by the fact that there is not
> universal agreement on terms.
>
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Brennan KD5VIJ, CCC-A/SLP
> web page
> http://titan.sfasu.edu/~g_brennantg/sonicpage.html
>
> On Sat, 8 May 2004, Howard Kaufman wrote:
>
> > Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 13:08:19 -0500
> > From: Howard Kaufman <[log in to unmask]>
> > Reply-To: Blind-Hams For blind ham radio operators
> > <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: Morse code
> >
> > Not sure how or why dislexics would have trouble
> with code at all.
> > It's compleetely liniar, and at 5 wpm all he has
> to do, is speak the
> > letters as he hears them. That's less than 1
> letter every 2 seconds.
> > No need to create words, just to recognize what he
> hears.
> > So how does dislexmake that impossible?
> >
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