Word: dyslexia
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Indeed, Visconti insists that such criticism is both innacurate and dangerous. Recent studies have shown that her processes have significant effect in accelerating learning, and are especially helpful in cases of learning disabilities, such as dyslexia...
...have an advantage that puts a deadly spin on the ball, and southpaws from Ty Cobb to Sandy Koufax have always been prized in baseball. And how about history's Left-Handed Hall of Fame? Lefty Napoleon! Lefty Picasso! Also such a contemporary personage as that stunning example of dyslexia in motion, Gerald Ford...
...dyslexia, which still sometimes causes him to puzzle for half an hour over a single word, has predisposed Horner against academic overcomplication and rigidity. He isn't the type to stake out an intellectual claim and spend his life footnoting it and fending off critics. For Horner, what matters is getting into the field, finding more bones and listening to what his hands have to say about them. Early one morning on a roadside somewhere north of Jordan, he pulls on a backpack loaded with water bottles, tools, a can of sardines for lunch. He has about...
...continued to hunt for a job in the dinosaur line, finally landing one in 1975 as an assistant in paleontology at Princeton University, where his first assignment was to straighten bent nails. There, at the age of 31, he discovered that his academic problem was not stupidity but dyslexia...
...appears, because Vonnegut likes the contrast of Debs' nobility ("While there is a lower class I am in it . . . while there is a soul in prison I am not free") with the grubby hopelessness of Hartke's world. And what about that college for dyslectics? Is dyslexia a sign of national decay? Has the author turned symbol monger? If not, what's the point...