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mcculloch29

Spelling.... The problem is, if you have dyslexia, you don't know where to start with a conventional dictionary...

Periodically, someone asks for b/w photographs/old postcards on our FC.

I'm convinced they are a dealer, I wonder how many people hand over valuable shots to them.

superfran_uk

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Spelling.... The problem is, if you have dyslexia, you don't know where to start with a conventional dictionary...

Periodically, someone asks for b/w photographs/old postcards on our FC.

I'm convinced they are a dealer, I wonder how many people hand over valuable shots to them.

Sometimes bad spelling is just that. However, if it is dyslexia, run it through someone else first. You simply cannot expect people to decipher this then pull out the stops to help you. I just ignore anything with bad spelling.

The answer is likely to be zero, I have posted one or two very reasonable wanteds, once I just needed used newspaper for my guinea pigs, and not received a jelly bean.

Mojisola

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Periodically, someone asks for b/w photographs/old postcards on our FC.

I'm convinced they are a dealer, I wonder how many people hand over valuable shots to them.

We're either in the same group or the collectors are starting to target Freegle groups.

dizziblonde

mcculloch29 wrote: »

Spelling.... The problem is, if you have dyslexia, you don't know where to start with a conventional dictionary...

Periodically, someone asks for b/w photographs/old postcards on our FC.

I'm convinced they are a dealer, I wonder how many people hand over valuable shots to them.

You can get specialist dyslexia dictionaries - kid I used to teach had one and was demonstrating how to use it to me (from what I recall it's done based upon the sound of the word rather than the actual spelling - so cat and kite which both start with the same hard k sound would be grouped together... was a long time ago that I had the conversation so memory may be hazy and there are probably better examples of words I could think of if my brain was working today)

adouglasmhor

My young brother spells like the quote in the post further up, he is not dyslexic but he has mild to moderate learning difficulties and we are all very proud he manages to read and write at all, my mum cried when she first saw him sitting reading a book aged 45.

Norma_Desmond

I'm just wondering if I could get any use out of the 'small Moroccan !!!!!!' advertised on my local site yesterday............

pulliptears

Norma_Desmond wrote: »

I'm just wondering if I could get any use out of the 'small Moroccan !!!!!!' advertised on my local site yesterday............

:rotfl:

Brilliant.

SpammyTheSpammer

They are fun to sit upon...
and great if you have to keep getting up and down

judderman62

I have offered up on a few local freecycle/freegle sites a cafetiere

One response I got was:

"Please could you provide abit more info?"

It's a cafetiere ... what more info could be needed.

mcculloch29

dizziblonde wrote: »

You can get specialist dyslexia dictionaries - kid I used to teach had one and was demonstrating how to use it to me (from what I recall it's done based upon the sound of the word rather than the actual spelling - so cat and kite which both start with the same hard k sound would be grouped together... was a long time ago that I had the conversation so memory may be hazy and there are probably better examples of words I could think of if my brain was working today)

Thanks for this - I'm actually a specialist tutor for dyslexia, but I didn't want to come over all 'I'm the expert', I just wanted to point out that bad spelling and/or grammar isn't always linked with a lack of intelligence or effort.

Many people with dyslexia would rather make mistakes than ask for help. The dictionary you mention is the ACE spelling dictionary, it takes a bit of getting used to. As you say it's based on the sounds of words and also by how many syllables are in a word.
That's a difficult skill for someone with dyslexia to master. If you put your hand under your chin as you speak you can do it though - your chin 'drops' on each syllable.

The "small Moroccan !!!!!!" gave me a massive laugh. Thank you.