cm0002Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work?
bleistift2tl;dr: No.
TrinsecWhat language do those deaf dyslexics read? Could they speak it before going deaf? Is it their first language or a second language after a sign language?
I can’t think of a comparable situation elsewhere in the world for hearing people. The closest that comes to mind is learning Classical Chinese in ancient Korea or Japan or ancient and medieval Vietnam, but nowadays all those countries have good phonetic writing systems and still don’t expect everyone to learn Classical Chinese.
Sign language first. Written language (Dutch) second. The ones I happen to know cannot speak Dutch at all. They’re pure sign language users. They’re all born deaf.
That’s interesting. Since they were born deaf and can’t speak Dutch, do they act like they’re memorizing words as if they were hieroglyphs?
I think a specialist would be interested. I don’t know enough about dyslexia to make a sound guess as to whether this is more like hearing-people dyslexia or character amnesia.
Character amnesia (forgetting how to write Chinese characters, often ones you can recognize without trouble) for me shows up as forgetting components or slightly misremembering them, as if I couldn’t quite remember whether it was “CD” or “CP” or “CO”, or if it was a “DVD” or a “DVV”.