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Re: problems

In message <v04205502b70a76f964bf@[24.234.108.114]>, Ed Carroll
<musicmkr@xxxxxxxx> writes
>Having spent 18 years in the American school classroom and as band
>director I was pleasantly surprised many times over the years to find
>that a student who had been diagnosed with text reading difficulties
>that were described as dyslexia did not have ANY problems reading
>music. In fact, several students who were having great difficulty
>during the rest of their school day excelled at reading the staves.
>Dyslexia usually creates reversal and transpositions of characters
>thdt miqht makc teh T3XT loohlihe this.sonetdinq (that might make the
>TEXT look something like this)  It appears to most who have looked
>into it that music and words are decoded in different parts of the
>grey matter.
>The problems that you and Jane allude to may be more easily explained
>by astigmatism (irregularities in the surface of the eye) or
>something to be looked at by an eye doctor or (as in the diabetes)
>your regular doctor.

As a non-dyslexic astigmatic, I'd just like to say that I occasionally
find the music going blurry when I lose concentration. That's with my
glasses on, of course. It feels like a drift in focus - I don't know how
many perfectly-sighted people experience this though.
By far the most common form of astigmatism (and it's surprisingly
common) is where the various muscles around the eyeball become deformed
in strength, pulling the sphere into a sort of rugby-ball shape (an
ellipsoid, I expect).

Dave

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