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But what I want to point out if I may is that handwriting is so absolutely fundamental.
And without the alphabet, we, everything would fall apart. Everything in our culture depends
upon the alphabet. Oh you say to yourself, well we have computers, well excuse me but
computers depend on the alphabet. If the alphabet were to disappear, computers would have nothing
no way of organizing. They wouldn't be, they would just fall apart. And then there would
be no signs, and then there would be no handwriting to sign your checks and everything would just
go right down the tubes. So paying attention to the alphabet is, can be pretty important.
You know what I do when I meet children if they are around an age when I know they might
be learning about the alphabet, I ask them this big important question. I say, How's
your alphabet? And then they don't know how to answer that. So then I say whatever I think
they are ready to hear about the alphabet. And I mention to them that I am the alphabet
doctor. So sometimes I wind up giving them their own alphabet. This is Kevin's alphabet.
And sometimes I wind up making a deal with the parents and I give that same child what
I call an IQ test. And I have found that I can sit down with a child and I can just using
the alphabet ok, as our base of operations. I can determine all kinds of things about
the intelligence of that child, there was going to be good things. But I can determine
to such an extent that I have had parents say to me, oh yeah well that's what they came
up with in school. You know that's what the psychologist came up with. Only I think I
can go one better because I think instead of just testing them at that point and in
that experience, I can also give them some, or I can open some doorways for them.