Dyslexia

The word dyslexia comes from the Greek root dys, which means difficulty, and lexis, which means word. Oswald Berkhan first identified dyslexia in 1881. Six years later, Rudolf Berlin coined the term “dyslexia” in Stuttgart, Germany.

Dyslexia is a learning disability that results from differences in how the brain processes written and spoken language. Dyslexic individuals experience difficulty reading, spelling, among other things. Although there is no cure for dyslexia, it can be overcome with proper educational support. How can we identify children with dyslexia and support them in the classroom?

 Grobstein writes about the "bipartite brain.”

“The basic idea here is that because of how the brain is organized all the things we experience (including perceptions, understandings, and aspirations) are inevi- tably "stories", ie one of a variety of ways to make sense of the world and our selves that are grounded in unexamined (and hence challengeable) presump- tions of which we are unaware. From this, of course, and the added feature that all brains are somewhat different, follows the notion that one cannot in principle find anything like a complete "neutral standpoint”...no unwobbly pivots or unchal- lengeable starting points.”

Welcome to my blog!

I am  Dr. Verolga Nix-Allen. I am a composer, arranger and have a choir of 30 adult voices called INTERMEZZO CHOIR MINISTRY singing my original music and Octavo music in Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass. I founded the INSTITUTE FOR THE PRESERVATION OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN MUSIC, the rationale being "Nothing but an echo of the past, yet I am the echo of the future, how will I ever know where to go, if I don'y know where I've been".  I am one of the two editors of SONGS OF ZION. a Supplementary Hymnal under writted by the United Methodist Church. I am interested in finding more information about: -

Parts of the brain for artistry, namely music, ie, singing

"A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.  I don't want to be at the mercy of my emtoins.  I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them." - Oscar Wilde

"Courage consists in the power of self-recovery."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Rember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more diffictul still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."  - Benjamin Franklin

"I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas." - Albert Einstein