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dyslectic

  • a word derived from dyslexia.
    dyslexia
    noun
    any of various reading disorders associated with difficulty decoding written language and integrating auditory and visual information, such as the association of phonemes with letter combinations in spelling.

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All agreed there is much that both public schools and parents can do that they are not now doing to teach dyslectic children.

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A dyslectic himself, he vividly remembers the frustration of being "the worst speller" at a back-country Georgia school.

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Dyslexia is a learning problem and teaching disability Nathaniel Gove, 19, of Kingston, Mass., was diagnosed as dyslectic in the second grade.

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Smith had known about his disability since he was eight; Thompson learned from a psychologist that he was dyslectic when he flunked out of Franklin.

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A dyslectic will learn what we call first learning very easily, but when he tries to apply it the next day, it's just not there.

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