Dyslexia
Sir, —Quoting high percentages among prisoners and others for the incidence of dyslexia, described as a “hereditary perceptual learning disease,” is not helpful. In 10 years of experience with retarded and disturbed children and young people, not one “otherwise normal” case answering this description has come my way. “Dyslexia,” like “autism,” is not a disease, but merely a fashionable word used differently by different people. The problem is to demonstrate that any sufferer so described really has “otherwise high intellectual potential.”—Yours, “JIM ABELSON.” November 26, 1971.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32775, 27 November 1971, Page 16
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