Myomancy ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism

There is a strong link between sensitivity and educational problems. This is most apparent for children in the autistic spectrum where certain noises or being touched in particular places can generate extreme effects. (See The Senses of Autism, Background Noise, Dysleixa and Earobics, Cocktail Party Deafness, Visual Noise Hard for Dyslexics to Cope With).
This study, Dynamic sensory sensitivity and children’s word decoding skills, looked at ten year old children who had not been diagnosed as having any learning difficulties. They were trying to establish if better hearing and better visual skills were correlational to better spelling and reading. The found that “The results suggest that children’s sensitivity to both dynamic auditory and visual stimuli are related to their literacy skills. Importantly, after controlling for intelligence and overall reading ability, visual motion sensitivity explained independent variance in orthographic skill but not phonological ability, and auditory FM sensitivity covaried with phonological skill but not orthographic skill. These results support the hypothesis that sensitivity at detecting dynamic stimuli influences normal children’s reading skills. Vision and audition separately may affect the ability to extract orthographic and phonological information during reading.”
So how effective your sight and hearing are affects your ability to learn to read and spell. In people with learning difficulties it may be that they are oversensitive to some things and under-sensitive to others. This might prevent them hearing the difference between a ‘f’ sound and a ‘th’ sound or it may mean they cannot ignore the sound of other children talking. Either way, they are not getting the proper signals that normal child use when learning.
One of the researcher on this paper was Joel B. Talcott who also worked on the paper covered in Walk Like A Dyslexic. He also done work on visual skills of dyslexics: Visual motion sensitivity in dyslexia: evidence for temporal and energy integration.