Albert Einstein, the most influential physicist of the 20th century, was dyslexic. He loved mathematics and science, but he disliked grammar and always had problems with spelling.
While Einstein 'loved mathematics and science,' he 'disliked grammar and had problems with spelling,' which could suggest that he had dyslexia.
Kids and adults can be very smart and have trouble with spelling. Some people are fast thinkers but slow spellers. They may be full of ideas but only write down a few words because spelling takes so much time and energy.
We have a long history of linking spelling skills to intelligence. We think people who can't spell are ignorant, illiterate, or stupid, despite having research dating back to the 1970s that shows that there is no significant association between spelling ability and intelligence.
In fact, some of our most renowned writers, including William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, were reportedly not just bad spellers, but really bad spellers.
But, John Steinbeck wrote better fiction than Ernest Hemingway. The latter has cultivated more fame and adoration than the former, at least among today's generations, because of his antics off the page and perhaps for his courageous bull and the matador mentality to living and writing.
Hemingway's strength lies in his short sentences and very specific details. His short sentences are powerfully loaded with the tension, which he sees in life. Where he does not use a simple and short sentence, he connects the various parts of the sentence in a straightforward and sequential way, often linked by “and”.
Spelling is one of the biggest, and most widely experienced difficulties for the dyslexic child and adult. Most dyslexic people can learn to read well with the right support, however, spelling appears to be a difficulty that persists throughout life. It's not entirely understood why this is the case.
Situation: Some believe that spelling and punctuation mistakes can contribute to a negative first impression of a person. In fact: Spelling deficiencies have little effect on judgments of intelligence.
If someone chooses to go into a field such as medicine, where there seems to be an entirely new language of medical terms, these types of skills become invaluable. Secondly, it is common to find people who are great readers but poor spellers.
Albert Einstein, the most influential physicist of the 20th century, was dyslexic. He loved mathematics and science, but he disliked grammar and always had problems with spelling.
Great spellers are often avid readers, and they commit a lot of words to memory, but they'll also study prefixes, suffixes, foreign languages and definitions that will help them deduce how a word is spelled.
His performance beats those of physicists Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein, who were both estimated to have IQs around 160.
There were, in fact, unique features to Einstein's brain that may be the answer to how he was so smart. Some parts of the brain were thicker than average, which could mean he had a stronger connection between the two hemispheres.
Bottom line: The solar eclipse of May 29, 1919, was the day astronomer Sir Arthur Eddington verified Einstein's general theory of relativity, by observing how stars near the sun were displaced from their normal positions.
The reason typos get through isn't because we're stupid or careless, it's because what we're doing is actually very smart, explains psychologist Tom Stafford, who studies typos of the University of Sheffield in the UK. “When you're writing, you're trying to convey meaning. It's a very high level task,” he said.
Bright children who seem to cope with reading but spell badly are almost always visual readers. They can recognize the shape of common words from memory. Words they do not know they will skip or guess from cues like the first letter, the length of the word and the context.
Dyslexia is hereditary, passed down in the genes. So if you or one of your parents struggled with reading it's more likely your child will too. It may skip a generation, but before you conclude that that it's not in the family, think carefully. Many people hide their weak reading skills.
Many children with dyslexia can overcome the difficulties associated with reading, but spelling is often overlooked, can persist throughout life, and may require accommodations or task modification. Spelling is also a more visible difficulty, and a source of embarrassment for both children and adults with dyslexia.
Struggling to spell homophones and irregular words
e.g. 'their' and 'there', 'pane' and 'pain'. Irregular words don't follow phonic rules e.g. spelling 'does' as it sounds 'duz'.
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