The dyslexic copes

Abstract

Whatever your interest, whatever your discipline, we hope you will find something to think about in what we have to say. We were Norman Phillips, the father of four dyslexic sons, Richard Berg, a student at Randallstown High School in Maryland, Dr. George Bright, Director of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, Health Sciences Division of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, and Foster Nowell, Jr., principal of Indian Lane Junior High School in Media, Pennsylvania. Everyone except me was and is a diagnosed dyslexic. As for me, I can't spell cat, even if you spot me C-A; and with a dyslexic wife who is a language therapist, and all those dyslexic kids around, well, draw your own conclusion. What I asked each of the panelists to do was, "Tell what it was like before you were diagnosed; tell what it was like when you were in therapy; and tell what it has been like since you were furloughed." Whatever your interest. . . . George Bright began the discussion. He talked of his own often baffling boyhood and of his work with young patients, whose difficulties are sure of an understanding when they come his way. You can read his thoughts