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Tag: dyslexia
AI prompt (for ChatGPT):
Okay, switching to something completely different. It is entirely normal for toddlers / young children learning to read, to go through a stage of dyslexia in which letters are mixed up. When they are asked to write a word, they write the correct letters but not in correct order. However, those very same kids, at that very same age, and copy a drawing of a car or a helicopter in the exact way the original drawing is made. This suggests that "eyes-to-reading" is carried on in a different way and a different area of the brain compared to the "eyes-to-drawing" phenomenon. One wonders if when asking a dyslexic child to "DRAW" the word "cat" would end up with a better result than asking the child to "WRITE" the word "cat." Thoughts?
The reply:
There's much more, but this is a great start.
Our older daughter with five-year-old twins provided additional insight regarding this whole topic. With the twins, one has dyslexia worse than the other. When she asks that twin to "draw" the word exactly as he sees it, his "drawing" of CAT is absolutely perfect -- just like his drawing of a helicopter. But when she asks him to "write" the word CAT it generally comes out as TCA. Absolutely fascinating. This whole subject "intersects" with AI and LLM training / learning.
If one wants to pursue this, the next obvious AI prompt:
Again, for these kinds of queries, I only use ChatGPT.Some time ago, you and I were discussing toddlers' ability to draw pictures relatively correctly at an early age but putting letters in the correct order when learning to read was more of a challenge (dyslexia). This was related to differing neural pathways / networks for each process. My hunch is that those involved in AI research and LLM training are learning a lot about dyslexia or have a lot to offer neuro-scientists studying dyslexia. Thoughts?
