ben7337

More like cops called for attempted theft.

I was educated in NJ in the 90's and I don't ever recall sight reading. It was always sound the word out, and even then you can learn to mispronounce things, but early on reading out loud helps correct issues there. I've never heard of this sight reading concept to be honest.

I'm not fully sure I do either but it sound like they teach kids to recognize words rather than sound them out. Personally I feel like I sort of developed a sight reading after learning and reading words a lot, but knowing how to sound them out is the step to learning them. So for example a kid who learns sight reading wouldn't be able to sound out the word "learning" but would be able to read it if they had seen it before. Almost like using drawn out pictograms. I'd say it's similar to the kanji Japanese uses, but kanji have multiple readings making it far more complex and Chinese has way more than 2000 everyday characters. I have to wonder how kids in the US can't overall do sight reading but China and Japan can teach far more complex systems without major issue.

Even in the US where costs are insane and for profit most residents only make 40-50k USD a year from what I've heard. That's 27-35k GBP.

Going blind, how does it limit your freedom? Can you cook? Clean? Go shopping? I guess it's all standard questions that any blind person could answer, but as a young independent adult, I'm curious.