Need a Passage of the book that i can Reed as a monologue or a monologue of one of the caracteres i am dislexic and even If It Is a short book It whuld take me ages to reead all of It It has to be than book for personal reasons I Need a monologue for teather school and that book Is really important for my family i Always wanted to read It buy dislexia Makes things hard but nevertheless i ordered the book and i am going to read It all but as i said before i dont have time .what Passage do you raccomand?

  • Cosmic_War_Crocodile@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Very offtopic, but never had the chance to ask: does being dyslexic also make using spelling/grammar checkers hard? I am very curious about this as I would assume it could be a great life improvement.

    Also, similarly, how are audiobooks?

    • dmizer@alien.topBEnglish
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      10 months ago

      does being dyslexic also make using spelling/grammar checkers hard?

      Not OP, but In short, yes. Often, misspellings are so far off that they don’t really help much.

      I was diagnosed before there was ever even such a thing as a word processor, so I had to develop a very tedious but functional hands-on toolbox that included things like paper with holes cut in it to remove distractions, writing with different colors, and using manual typewriters.

      Once word processors and computers became available, I thought I was saved. But it actually set me back pretty far, because I built an overdependence on it. I was using the suggestion without double checking the word. My university papers turned into unintelligible gobbledegook.

      I had to rework my entire dyslexia toolbox from scratch.

        • dmizer@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Learning to touch type so I can write with my eyes closed helps.

          I use a thesaurus to check spelling.

          With it, I can look up a simple, but related word, and look through the synonyms to find the correct word.

          Reading faster just took time and patience.

          I’m still slower than average, but I can read okay now.

          Don’t try to push yourself too hard, because getting frustrated just makes things worse.

          Keep practicing and building your toolbox.

        • dmizer@alien.topBEnglish
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          10 months ago

          Thank you, but it’s taken a lot of frustrating work and time. OP seems to be just beginning the journey.