Dyslexic Advantage Sparknotes

Doctors B. Eide and F. Eide have a private practice in neurolearning in the pacific northwest. They list their relevant memberships in the International Dyslexia Association, and the Learning Disabilities Association of America. As of the publishing date they are board members for SENG (Supporting Emotional Needs of the Gifted). The doctors also travel as lecturers on the subject. The novel approach taken in their book, The Dyslexic Advantage, is that rather than viewing dyslexia as only a learning deficiency they highlight what might be considered its talents and skills. Using their many years of experience both in education and science, they focus on bridging what is known about the physical makeup of a dyslexic brain with what they have witnessed from those with dyslexia can uniquely achieve. Beginning with what makes a dyslexic brain different they then set out to describe four reasonings typical of someone who is dyslexic. Drs. Eide explain that there are four distinctions regarding a dyslexic brain. The first is the phonological deficit. Much of the challenge here is directed to the amount of processing power that is devoted to understanding language. The dyslexic brain commits an

Casanova at the University of Kentucky School of Medicine. There Dr. Casanova has determined that the neural cortex of a dyslexic brain have longer and farther spaced neural connections. In contrast an autistic neural cortex has the shortest and more tightly packed neurons. The hypothesis here is that the longer and further spaced neurons of a dyslexic brain accounts for their excel at big picture problem solving. This includes stronger intuition, unusual and often cleaver insights into connections. Though this makes a dyslexic mind less capable of sustained attention to fine detail or repetition. For me this type of descriptor speaks with more authority to dyslexia as a learning difference than