Hi Philip
You might want to check the internet on your assumptions about
dyslexia.
I have seen a couple articles in the last few months that show from
statistical evidence, that Dyslexia is much less of a problem in
countries where the spelling is consistenly phonemic.
It is the extra mental processing that complicated spelling rules
invoke, rather than funny looking letters which are hard to
distinguish, which accentuates a Dylexic persons reading
difficulties.
The Hebrew Alphabet is the king of similar looking characters, but
does not have same level of difficulty attributed to ENglish
spelling.
Regards, Paul V.
--- In shavian@..., "Ph. D." <phild@a...> wrote:
> Ethan skribis:
> >
> > But the one thing which I think would do the most for Shavian is
the
> > role I think it should play - it should be taught to young
children who
> > haven't yet learned how to read! Perhaps if it were used in
this way,
> > these children would find reading to be an enjoyable activity,
not
> > fraught with spelling and pronuciation problems as the current
system
> > is. More children would learn to read, and would read better.
There
> > would be fewer problems with dislexia and other such reading
disorders.
> > Then the traditional orthography could be taught, after they
have
> > already gained the concept of reading in Shavian. It's a major
jump to
> > go from not reading at all to reading TO, but to go from nothing
to
> > Shavian and from Shavian to TO would be easier, I believe.
>
>
> As I recall this was attempted back in the 1960s with the Initial
> Teaching Alphabet. The ITA was a phonemic alphabet. Many
> children's books were published in it. The idea was to use this
> phonemic spelling to teach children how to read, then they
> could be transitioned to TO.
>
> As I recall, children did learn reading faster and better with
ITA,
> but the transitioning was a big problem. It turned out to be more
> difficult to teach TO to those who had already learned a phonemic
> system than to just start out with TO (which was why the ITA was
> abandoned).
>
> (As an aside, I doubt that Shavian would correct problems with
> Dyslexia. There is less distinction between many Shavian letters
> than Latin ones. I suspect Dyslexia would be just as much a
> problem as it is now.)
>
> --Ph. D.
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