“I myself am a very poor visualizer, and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall have any distinctness at all. – William James “Father of Psychology Most dyslexia experts know that multisensory structured language instruction is the gold standard for teaching students with dyslexia, but most people don’t know exactly why. Many attribute the concept to Samuel Orton and Anna Gillingham, but actually the idea was recognized at least 30 years earlier by William James and Francis Galton, both of whom may have been dyslexic. From James’ classic book, The Principles […]
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