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The kevolution · 16-01-2009, 06:57

That was a foolish and ill-researched statement from the MP, but not without some truth behind it.

Dyslexia is definitely a real condition and I've spent years working with children with learning difficulties to convince me of this.

However it is a terribly...convenient... affliction and there is no question that a lot of parents push for their children to be diagnosed with Dyslexia (or another LD, but dyslexia has the least stigma attached to it) to explain away the fact that they are under-achieving at school.

I'd say probably upwards a quarter of the children I worked with whose parents pushed for dyslexia weren't actually dyslexic, just simply weren't confident readers or not very academically skilled.

Oh, and with the genuine cases I worked with coloured overlays or tinted glasses seemed to really help a lot of the time, pretty much anything other than reading black print on a white page.

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The kevolution Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Shenyang, China Posts: 62 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: Dyslexia is a fiction says MP That was a foolish and ill-researched statement from the MP, but not without some truth behind it. Dyslexia is definitely a real condition and I've spent years working with children with learning difficulties to convince me of this. However it is a terribly...convenient... affliction and there is no question that a lot of parents push for their children to be diagnosed with Dyslexia (or another LD, but dyslexia has the least stigma attached to it) to explain away the fact that they are under-achieving at school. I'd say probably upwards a quarter of the children I worked with whose parents pushed for dyslexia weren't actually dyslexic, just simply weren't confident readers or not very academically skilled. Oh, and with the genuine cases I worked with coloured overlays or tinted glasses seemed to really help a lot of the time, pretty much anything other than reading black print on a white page.