Reading Disability
Sir, —The theories of two Napier doctors concerning dyslexia would be more deserving of publicity if they refrained from ill-informed I criticism of other professions.
Psychologists are obviously the best qualified to study defects in any kind of childhood behaviour, and I am sure that all those in the Education Department’s service are fully aware of all the possibilities. In dealing with many hundreds of retarded children I have sought every alternative to intellectual handicap, but have not encountered one case where dyslexia or other aphasia has been misdiagnosed. Certainly no psychologist would rush into statistics with only 13 cases. Talk of incidences ranging from .01 to 20 per cent as variations in recognition is extravagant. These figures plainly refer to different conditions, yet the necessity or unwisdom of psychological treatment is confidently discussed by these general practitioners.—Yours, etc VARIAN J. WILSON. December 8, 1966.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31239, 10 December 1966, Page 14
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