We're glad you're here tonight.

Yeah.

Thanks, Eric.

Appreciate it.

Um, it's nice to be back.

I think I talked to you guys, I was looking back, maybe it was late '24, and I, I talked a bit about dyslexia, and that was just early on in, in our discussions about revising the definition.

Um, so I'm gonna talk a bit more about that tonight.

Okay.

Yeah.

So if you don't know very much information, how do you think about it? Well, you read about it in the text, but the problem is you can only get so much of the information in that text into your memory.

The advantage to having background knowledge is when you're thinking about the new information, you can retrieve knowledge that you have that's chunked into bigger bits of information, so it doesn't take up as much room, if you will, in your working memory.

Mm.

You can use that to help you make sense of that incoming information and build a bigger memory.

That knowledge gives you a place to put information, so when you read about something, it gives you a storage for the information.

It's kinda like a cubby hole that you put the mail in.

New bits of information fits into that old schema, if you will, or understanding of a particular topic.