CONCLUSIONS: Children of mothers with a severe mental illness are at increased risk for sub-standard academic achievement at age 12 years, placing these children at disadvantage for the transition to secondary school. For children with familial risk for severe mental illness, very poor spelling skills at age 12 years may be an indicator of risk for later psychotic disorder.
I wonder how many here with a familial risk for severe mental illness were poor spellers .
I wonder if they factor the correlation between medicines and cognitive dysfunction in the offspring. SSRIs and autism, for instance. My friend came off of hers when she found out she was pregnant. Hopefully her baby doesn’t have any problems
My son, who also has sz, is an ok speller. He started to go downhill academically in his freshman year of high school, due to his own psychological struggles and other circumstances, but he’s brilliant otherwise. Being a good speller is akin, IMO, to being a robot. It’s not a sign of intelligence but of rote memory accomplished through repetition. Having a natural curiosity and understanding of various and complex concepts is intelligence. Plus, many factors are involved in school performance: locality, instructors, peers, family in general, even hunger…