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intelligence across the population
so is there in dyslexia.”
Places to call if you’re concerned
What every parent wants is for their
child to grow up into a confi dent young

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�Dyslexia Teaching Centre and therapists for those parents, with information
adult who feels he has something to 20-23 Kensington Square, with SENs. on specific learning
offer. “It is hard to get the message across London W8 5HN.

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�Ruth Jacobs Children’s difficulties as well as
to parents that their children are not Tel: 020 7361 4790 Therapy www.ruthjacobs. learning strategies.
stupid,” says Petty. “But they do need www.dyslexiateaching org.uk Provides therapists

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to be taught differently so that they can centre.co.uk Offers tuition in speech and language, Association www.
access information in the correct way.” for those with specific occupational therapy and bdadyslexia.org.uk
She worries far more about the child learning difficulties and physiotherapy. Offers a wide range of
brought in at 14. “If you leave it too late places therapists in

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it is very diffi cult for them to catch up.” schools. Sally Wright is its The Portland Hospital, 234 dyslexic adults and
No two dyslexics are the same, but dyspraxia specialist. Great Portland Street, W1. teachers with details of
the journey usually starts from the

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�VB Associates Tel: 07787 516127. Smyth international conferences.
same place; worried parents or an astute www.vb-associates.co.uk is a consultant who sees

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�Dyslexia Action www.
school teacher, then a paediatrician, Provides a tailored service children with problems dyslexiaction.org.uk
an educational psychologist and a in educational psychology including dyslexia, ADHD A national organisation
dyslexic specialist trained in speech and for school-age children. and developmental delay. with 25 centres, 47
language. It’s a steep learning curve Contact 01453 860 338 for

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�DysTalk www.dystalk.com teaching outposts and
and you mustn’t miss a trick. I had had appointments. An information-sharing over 100 units in schools
Mungo’s ears tested but had let the eyes

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the change to a special school initially and intervention service Dyslexia Teaching Centre county by county.
because I didn’t want him going to a
small school where all the other children
also had a learning diffi culty. Other
parents however, were reassuring. One Tait, formerly of Fairley House. “But starting to read and type and when my
mother told me about her seven-year-old most return to mainstream within two husband quizzes the children on their
son, who had the mathematical abilities years and you have spared them the general knowledge over Sunday lunch it is
of a fi ve-year-old. Nothing changed in humiliation of being bottom of the class Mungo who answers fi rst. He has a long
his fi rst year at Fairley House, a special in everything.” way to go, but I have been told that he
school in Lambeth, but then suddenly By the end of Mungo’s fi rst week at should be able to go to university. Perhaps
he leapt forward and by eight, had the Emerson House, a tutors for dyslexic one day somebody like me will be politely
mathematical abilities of an 11-year- children in Hammersmith, I realised the telling him to get over being dyslexic, that
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