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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not convinced that being able to spell correctly is a critical skill.  My experience has been that dyslexic adults in the professional workforce can use technology to compensate in most situations.  Similarly, unless handwriting is actively interfering with other skills (such as higher level math classes), I'm unconvinced that focusing on remediating handwriting is worth the investment.  On the other hand, reading comprehension and the ability to write effectively are much more important.
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Respectfully, I suspect you're seeing successful compensation because you are dealing with those who "made it" to the professional workforce. They likely reached some level of proficiency in spelling to get there. A lot of dyslexics remain poor spellers and don't make it to/through college or trade school.

Spelling affects grammar (there/their/they're) and usage even if you know grammar in spoken language. Grammar can also be "too much" for someone who can't spell, so they never learn it.

I didn't even get into the amount of judgment that happens to those who can't spell. I've watched it, and it's heartbreaking.

Agree with the other poster who mentioned spelling being a sign of [b]poor orthographic mapping[/b].[/quote]

Is that remediated in OG? 
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Yes, because orthographic mapping requires understanding the grapheme/phoneme correspondences, which are learned in OG.

See https://www.parkerphonics.com/post/sight-words-orthographic-mapping-and-self-teaching 
"Orthographic Mapping: a process which involves making explicit the connections between the  graphemes in a written word and the phonemes in its pronunciation. Orthographic Mapping automatically creates sight words."

Also https://www.parkerphonics.com/post/the-essential-linnea-ehri

Note, which should become evident if you read the links, the "sight words" referenced in the definition are not the Dolch/Fry lists you memorize. It means words you can read automatically (as an efficient reader) because you did do the work of decoding and encoding at some point.

"If these grapheme-phoneme connections can be made, consciously and explicitly, by a reader just a few times, the word will automatically become a sight word for her – a word that will never need to be decoded, analogized, or predicted again." (Dyslexics might take more than just a few times to do this, but that's what the OG is working on.)

I could write more, but it's said better on the blog anyway.[/quote]

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