Flist Request, please please....

[tabaqui]

Okay. I'm writing a fic. *boggles the mind, i know* And in it, i need someone to read aloud. The reader, however, is dyslexic.

Now, i know that that is a touchy subject. And because it is, i want it to be right. I want the two or three sentences to sound like they actually would, and not like they would with me, the non-dyslexic person, making it up. I don't like the thought, and i think it would be insulting.

I really hope that someone out there can help me with this. I really hope this isn't an offensive request.

Look behind the cut for the actual passage.
Thanks, anybody and everybody.



Chorus: Why do you cry out thus, unless at some vision of horror?

Cassandra: The house reeks of death and dripping blood.

Chorus: How so? 'Tis but the odor of the altar sacrifice.

Cassandra: The stench is like a breath from the tomb.

Aeschylus, Agamemnon

The primroses were over. Toward the edge of the wood, where the ground became open and sloped down to an old fence and a brambly ditch beyond, only a few fading patches of pale yellow still showed among the dog's mercury and oak-tree roots. On the other side of the fence, the upper part of the field was full of rabbit holes.


The person reading is angry, nervous, and afraid - does NOT want to read and is being yelled at. If that makes a difference.

Comments

[cleeaz.livejournal.com]

Daughter Katie (aka Katiedid, cause Katie usually did it) - is dyslexic - most the problem is that she constantly loses her place and can't read the entire sentence, but usually a single word at a time, then she has to process those words to make them make any sense in a sentence. So it would be

the
stench
is
like
a
breath
from
the
tomb

?? what - brief pause then re-reading to herself. She basically has to take it apart word by word then put it back together. This makes reading slow and agonising for her. She does much better with large print (although vision isn't the problem) and using a guide (she uses her bookmark). This keeps her on the write sentence without being distracted. Think about how you or I read - we usually see and read the entire sentence in one go - basically absorbing the information with out breaking it down word for word. This makes us fast reader and fast writers.

Hope this helps - Cindy Lee

[tabaqui]

Oh, you mean - you don't affectionately call her a bug?
*snerk*

Okay...this does help but...
Everything i've read online says there is letter switching and word confusion - was for saw, that sort of thing. Does she do that, as well?

[cleeaz.livejournal.com]

Yes, this is why she concentrates on reading one word at a time - the letter switching / number switching happens more when she's writing than when she reading - although she may read one as none, or on. Clee

[tabaqui]

Ahhh.... Interesting.
K.
:)
Thanks, bay-bee!

[tabaqui]

And also ment to say - thank you thank you, i appreciate you saying something.
:)