Un alphabet dans la tête [French]

By Gisèle Gelbert

Damien, 14, is illiterate. He can't read or write. He is incapable of recognising letters, and he cannot spell words or syllables. He does not know that there is a relation between what is said and what is written: it is not even that there is a poor relation, in his eyes there is no relation. Zacharie is also illiterate. Among other things, he is sure that the French vowel " "(pronounced "Eh " meaning "Hey ") cannot be written. For him, it is the vowel sound to call someone and so cannot be written down. And at the age of 14, Zacharie still cannot write. J r mie, 8, thinks that when the vowel changes, the consonant must change too. For him, the stability of the consonant depends on the vowel's. Unable to break words down into syllables, he invariably produces meaningless sounds - and cannot read. For Damien, Zacharie, J r mie and many others the acquisition of reading and writing skills is an impossible task because they do not possess an alphabet. In this sense, they are illiterate. The alphabet has not found its place in their linguistic development. And because it has not been correctly "installed" in their brains, they are incapable of proceeding from the oral to the written sphere or vice versa. Based on the case histories of her young patients, Gis le Gelbert shows that the alphabet may be at the root of aphasiac-type disorders. She also demonstrates, through numerous exercises and examples, how the alphabet can serve as an essential therapeutic tool to treat and cure difficulties in reading and writing.Gis le Gelbert is a neurologist specialising in aphasia. She is the author of Lire c'est vivre; Lire c'est aussi crire and Le Cerveau des illettr s. / Gis le Gelbert a mis au point un alphabet, l'alphabet Janus, un alphabet deux faces. Et puis, elle a sorti tous les autres secrets de l'alphabet: ils sont devenus des outils th rapeutiques, des instruments de gu rison. Depuis, elle peut aider les enfants qui ne savent pas lire et crire. Elle peut r pondre tous ces petits questionneurs qui ont la lecture sur le bout de la langue et la dict e au bout de la plume et qui n'en peuvent mais: ils sont non-lecteurs et non-transcripteurs. Ils nous disent: pourquoi vous n' crivez pas ce que vous dites ? Vous dites p " et vous crivez "p" ? Dites un peu... Pourquoi les voyelles nasales ne figurent pas dans l'alphabet et si moi, je n'ai pas envie d' crire les voyelles dans les mots, qu'est-ce que a peut faire ? Dites un peu... Neurologue et aphasiologue, Gis le Gelbert a publi Lire, c'est vivre ainsi que Le Cerveau des illettr s et Lire, c'est aussi crire."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2738110215
• ISBN13: 9782738110213
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: JACOB
• Length: 229 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.7" x 0.6" x 5.7"