Approximately 4% of the Population are Dislexic. It is now recognised as a disability.
Throughout history, the great mathematicions and logical thinkers had been identified as dyslexic with a medical reason that their brains are bigger and that there is a deficit in the left hemisphere of the brain. In is incurable and usually inherited as dyslexia can run through many generations of a family . The definition includes very rare cases including mirror writing, reverse writing, and word jumble writing, plus there are the unfortunates who have sufferred brain damage or whose IQ is so low they could not understand the complexities of the English Language. However PI is aimed at "Mainstream Dislexics" if there is such a category .
10 or more years of schooling is painful for dyslexics. Being unable to read books or the blackboard; being subject to bullying; being shown up as "backward"; receiving detention; cane; failing every English Exam and Spelling Test. etc . Humiliated because they are being told "you are holding everyone else up".
Teachers do not seem to realise that when they have a pupil who can get 100% in Arithmetic Exams and less than 10% in an English Exam, there is something very "WRONG"?
What is "Wrong" is the English Language.
Maths and Astronomy are totally factual and logical, but what English Teachers are asking these pupils to learn is like an irregular multiplication table:
1 time 2 = 2 1 time 3 = 3 2 times 2 - 4 2 time 3 = 6 3 times 2 = 6 3 time 3 = 9 4 times 2 =8 4 times 3 = 47 5 times 2 = 10 5 times 3 = 15 6 times 2 - 71 6 times 3 = 72 7 times 2 = 14 7 times 3 = 74 8 times 2 = 16 8 times 3 =18 9 times 2 = 19 9 times 3 = 27 10 times 2 = 20 10 times 3 = 30 11 times 2 = 67 11 times 3 = 146 12 times 2 = 24 12 times 3 = 36
It doesn't matter how many times a teacher tries to drill illogical multiplication tables like this into the minds of Dyslexics or the threats, bullying, penalties etc Dyslexics are not going to learn them, because they are illogical. If something is illogical their brain will fight it all the way, put up barriers, and refuse to accept it.
It is exactly the same with English. If a word is illogical it will never be learnt or ,after huge sufference , learnt over a period of years. It is a fight all the time - if there in No B in Ram, why is there a B in Lamb? Who says there must be a B in lamb?
This turmoil in the brain leads to frustration - "Who says there must be an H in Rubarb or a W in write ?" . The usual answer of "Well there is an H in Rhubard, and W in write, so get on and accept it !" adds to the frustration and the hatred of teachers who promote this illogical world.
There is a well klnown link between illiteracy and "crime" -starting with attacks on teachers.
Advertisers are keen to sell to illiterates so promote Go-Kart; Kit Kat; Kwik fit; Skool Days; Toys R Us ; Wispa Gold.
For "Mainstream Dislexics" to be able to read , they need a totally Regular and Logical English Language. A language that is organised on simple lines and ortomatoic to learn. It is hoped that Progresiv Inglish will meet this need.
Schoolchildren waste 2 or 3 years of their lives learning all the irregularities of the English Language and PI is so simple, that it can easily be used as a Second Language.
Well known dyslexics include :- Mohammed Ali; Hans Christian Anderson; David Bailey; Alexander Graham Bell; Richard Branson; Erin Brockovich; Michelangelo Buonarrot; George Bush; George W Bush; Agatha Christie; Winston Churchill; Tom Cruise; Harvey Cushing; Walt Disney; Thomas Edison; Albert Einstrin; Dwight Eisenhower; Fred Epstein; Michael Faraday; Hemry Ford; Bemjamin Franklin; Duncan Goodhew; Susan Hampshire; Tommy Hilfinger; John F Kennedy; Nigel Kennedy; Keira Knightly; John Lennon; Pablo Piccaso; Steve Redgrave; Oliver Reed; Nelson Rovkerfeller; Steven Speilberg; Jackie Stewart; Leonards da Vinci ; Andy Warhol; George Washington; Woodrow Wilson; Frank F Woolworth.