As mentioned earlier, my phone decided to shed some buttons at the beginning of the week. Leaving me with a semi-retarded phone.
If the screen of the phone was the ears, the buttons would be the mouth. Communicating with the whacked out button phone pretty much sucks.
My mum used to work for Apple Inc. She was country manager for service and support a.k.a Apple Care.
Comrades who asked knew that fact always wondered why I didn’t get an iPhone.
This might not make any sense but my phone was still working. I don’t see the point of spending $$$. Consider me in the late majority in the adoption bell curve.
I like to use something until it breaks, and repair it, and it breaks again, and repair it again, and until it just dies.
Don’t ask me what Kagami is feeding Kagami with but it doesn’t look nice.
So I’m waiting for Nokia’s N8 to reach the shores of sunny Singapore. That will be my next phone.
She doesnt’ look good.
So where’s my stash of double sided tape??? Got to stick the keypad back.
Phone problems aside. I’ve got a perplexing problem, though I doubt I will find my answer here. But it’s worth a shot, someone might come up with a creative solution.
I’ve a kid who is 4 years old, left handed. Has a sister that’s 6 years old, left handed too. He has problems writing in the direction that normal boring humans use,which is left to right. He writes right to left. As you can see from the picture above, his name is JOEL but he writes it as LEOJ. Should have given him a palindrome name instead. So anyone has suggestions on how to re-direct his handwriting?
Its a rare talent to write from right to left and invertedly. Ask his mum to invest in his talents and send him to the book of records.
His sister’s name is Cherie
Regarding the kid, it’s sort of a developmental issue. Try teaching him to read from left to right, guiding him along the way. Or you could be more direct and instruct him to write from left to right. Draw a symbol or a dot in front of the line and tell him to start writing towards the right from there. Because writing from right to left is usually a trait shared by right-brain children during their early developmental stages. It could be safe to assume that after reading and writing for a while they’d learn how to write from left to right.
You might want to see if he has any issues reading from left to right as well, because I highly suspect that he reads from right to left.
Thanks for the input!
OH I remember reading about it in my textbook. I think its a form of dyslexia but not to worry because he is still young and could probably grow out of it once he grows older.
It is so Cool!
I never thought that playing!
Nice shot of an Haruhi and company of Nendos…
Well… My answer is for you to write his/her name in the way you would… In your “other” hand… It could work!
Yes… New phone is in need… I do also need a new phone! XD
No good to change a let handed to a right handed. My sister is a gd example of what goes wrong when you do that
Indeed, that’s a very bad idea. It’s so bad it’s documented.
Question, how did he get started in writing in reverse?
I’m a lefty but never had the same problem when I was a kid.
He’s dyslexic. I’ve heard of cases like this from other people but this is the first time seeing it in action. Apparently no one knows what can we do to help little Joel to get back on proper writing development
Hi, if the child is in mainstream, i.e. primary schools, you should ask the child’s parents to check with the school if they have support for learning issues. Schools nowadays have a teacher-in-charge or teaching support staff to help escalate such issues and to provide info on where you can get the child tested and learning intervention programmes.
Alternatively, can check with http://www.das.org.sg/ Dyslexia Association of Singapore. They also have resources on how to escalate or seek help.
Oh, thanks for the DAS suggestion. Never thought of that ^^