I am a remedial teacher and it strikes me that many students with eidetic dyslexia are visual thinkers. Can they also have a photographic memory or is that linked to word-picture memory?
Answer
Some children with dyslexia are visual thinkers, others are not. There is as much variation in this as within people without dyslexia.
The most common form of dyslexia has to do with problems with phonological awareness (not hearing parts of a word and not being able to make words with those parts – k/a/t = ?).
We recently carried out a large study into the types (subtypes) of dyslexia and were actually NOT able to find them (including the so-called ‘eidetic dyslexia’). There is therefore currently no evidence for subtypes (groups of people with a similar profile) within dyslexia. We did find this in dyscalculia (for information about dyscalculia: see www.studerenmetdyscalculie.be).
You can find a lot of information about dyslexia online at www.dyslexie.ugent.be (you can watch a documentary there and download a brochure with information about dyslexia).
Sincerely
Annemie Desoete (more information at: annemie.desoete@ugent.be)
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Prof. dr. Annemie Desoete
Learning disabilities, dycalculia, dyslexia, DCD, ASD, metacognition, executive functions, arithmetic.
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