Originally Posted by Zen Scanner
Not sure if it would be helpful, but the Eides who wrote the Dyslexic Advantage have this slideshow talking about trade-offs in gifted minds. http://www.slideshare.net/drseide/brains-on-fire-gifted-thinkers

Just looking at it now... thanks smile I've heard of the reciprocity of different cognitive functions before - it makes a lot of sense.

I'm at slide 48, and it says "Visual thinkers process words through picture areas"

Um, wow. DS is not particularly phonetic, and finds it easier to simply memorize words (i.e. take a picture? process the word in picture areas?) rather than sound them out. This means that longer, more complex words are easier for him to remember because there's more to "hold on" to. Whereas the smaller words (he, she, was, saw, we, etc) usually mess him up.