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Endorsement for dyslexics:

"...If you can't spell a word, you cannot find it in a dictionary..."

...Through brain scans, Dr. Sally Shaywitz of Yale University has shown that dyslexic readers typically underutilize the "visual word form area" of the brain - the part of the visual cortex believed to be involved in instantaneous recognition of whole words. This is the part of the brain that probably stores a picture of the right letters arranged in the right order, the part that is engaged when you choose the correct spelling because it just looks right to you.

It isn't that dyslexic writers are unable to spell a word; with their creative problem-solving strengths, they can easily spell the same word half a dozen different ways. As Andrew Jackson once said, "its a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word".

The problem is in figuring out which spelling is the one that everyone else will use and understand.

And here is where the most powerful tool – the dictionary – is also the most inaccessible. Because if we err in guessing the first 2 or 3 letters of the word, we will never find it.

This is where Gabby's Wordspeller becomes indispensible – it provides the key to the door that opens the dictionary. It is where all those phonetic decoding skills emphasized by well-meaning primary school teachers can finally be brought to fruition: krecher may not be a word, but it is a spelling, albeit an incorrect one. In a regular dictionary, it leads us to the Kremlin, which is not where we wanted to go. But Gabby's phonetic dictionary gives us the answer in exactly the place we have gone to find it: “creature.”

Suname leads to' tsunami'. Fanomanen takes us to 'phenomenon'. Ekselerate turns into 'accelerate'. And pretty soon, the world of words is ours for the taking. If we already know the meaning of the word, that is all that is needed. The correct spelling is there, in a form that we can copy and use.

If our trip to the dictionary is also a search for meaning, or etymology, or information as to usage, or a set of synonyms, then Gabby's has opened the door for us. By providing the spelling we need, we can access the larger dictionary or thesaurus which can provide us with whatever information we seek.

This reference book should be in every school library, in every classroom, and at home on every student's desk. It is the key to independence for every learner."

-Abigail Marshall

April 7, 2009 Abigail Marshall is the author of the books The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Dyslexia and When Your Child Has … Dyslexia, published by Adams Media. She also manages the Dyslexia the Gift web site at www.dyslexia.com and other educational sites for Davis Dyslexia Association International

Endorsement for ESL students at the Secondary level:

Quote used on the rear cover of "Gabby's Wordspeller" December, 2008 edition...

"...From my experience as a teacher at Japanese junior high schools, I know that many students go through three years of junior high school limited to this same "sight word" method. The result? The memory load is too great. Many many words are forgotten. Many spellings are confused. Pronunciation of new words remains a mystery to students until the teacher first reads the words.  Dislike for English increases as the junior high school students experience continuing failure, shame and stress....English has so many spelling variations! Remembering and distinguishing these variations has been a huge problem for learners of written English."