... After all, it's not anything that many of the contenders in the "debate" are very interested in looking for. (Sailer and Sowell are among the rare exceptions.)
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I mean like hearing the different vowel sounds. Some kids just don't seem to hear the differences very well and thus have trouble connecting them to letters. Of course, some kids have totally different problems where they understand things fine but have trouble making the sounds.
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yeah by the time you learn to read and write you are already speaking a specific dialect which regulates which sound distinctions you can hear that's not actually innate it's an inevitable part of learning a language
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Different kids exposed to the same language have different abilities in noticing the distinctions between sounds.
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are you talking about e.g. the difference between a kid in inner-city Baltimore and a kid in rural Ohio? b/c that is a dialect difference - same lang, big diff in phonologies
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No. Kids in the same family
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Oh, okay. But that's much more unusual
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Oh I don't think it is though. Kids famously have different pronunciation difficulties (see how many speech pathologists there are), and similarly they have a wide range of spelling abilities. Based on my observation, I think spelling ability variation has a lot to do with
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differences in sound recognition
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