h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This has come on by leaps and bounds again. I'm stuck on the meaning on a couple sentences:

"This is however a very basic description of what dyslexia or specific learning difficulty" - could this just read "This is however a very basic description of dyslexia."

"which leads in all causes to problems with spelling " I guess: "which leads in all cases to problems with spelling "

This is a good balance of insight and fact: do you have any idea of what % of people have dyslexia?

thx again Cloviscat I've made a couple of tiny changes which u will perhaps recognise as the exact changes u sergested

This is a very informative article and one which many researchers will find relevant and interesting.



Amy the (Scout) Ant

Guess what! I showed this article to The Towers and they loved it too.

They say, "Thanks for your recommendation. You'll be glad to know that we think this entry is great, and it has now gone into the Editorial Process for future inclusion in the Edited Guide. When it does get into the Edited Guide, we will email to let you know, but please bear in mind it can take a while for entries to go through the sub-editing system."

Congratulations!



Amy the (Scout) Ant

woohoo thx scouts, and all you lovely people who made comments, I would also like to thank my mother (cous techniquly it her fault i'm dslexic ) also my friends several people a meet once and my dog.

Editorial note: This thread has been moved off the Peer Review page to the entry's own forums, as it has now been accepted for editing.

I found the latest version of this article to be really good. I liked it quite a lot. I actually have very mild dyslesia. (lysdexia?) In me it comes out as a complete inibility to remember numbers, and a tendancy to mix up p,d,and b. (although on a keyboard thats not a problem, cause theyre different places) And I also tend to start words in the middle, and have to go back and write in the beginning.

I think the article could do with a bit more on the syntoms experianced... I've got a severly dyslexic friend who cannot read because "the letters crawl around the page when I look at them" I just think it would make it a bit more interesting if they were listed.

Agreed - this is a good entry.

ta-darr, sorry for not repying earler, but i had to move back to uni and get all that stuff organised blar-blar-blar, any way perhaps you could ask your friend to write a fue words and send them to the editers for incultion in the edited version or post them here and i'll try and add them to this 1

This is a really cool entry...

... although I feel there aren't enough like it on H2G2. I don't really know enough about it to write an article myself, and If I tried, I'd only end up confussing myself...
I'm mildly dyslexic myself, but don't have any of the normal things like spelling difficulty or number problems, I do however have BIG problems with writing long constructed essays... They just don't work with me and my brain always gets stuck after the first paragraph...

The only reasson I can spell so well today, is thanks to the BDA and their efforts to teach me ways around it when I was younger. However I've found my schools and even college found it hard to either understand or accomodate me because I wasn't what you'd call the "average" dyslexic, not there is such a thing obviously

I do feel however that undertanding and assistance by the authorities has grown so much over the years I reckon with the help of common people like us to help, things can only get better