Word: eyesight
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...could treat dyslexia before a child started trying to read?" Or better still, before a child started trying to talk. Tallal and Merzenich go so far as to suggest that some forms of language impairment could turn out to be more correctable than poor hearing or poor eyesight. They point out that the earphones that transmit the exaggerated speech sounds to children's ears in the lab are only temporary aids. "When you take off eyeglasses, you can't see," observes Kuhl. "But when you take off these funny-looking earphones, then you might just proceed to understanding normal speech...
That revelation might have inspired him to follow in Bob's military footsteps, but Newt had flat feet and bad eyesight (nowadays he wears contact lenses). He would probably never have made it into the service, and by the time of Vietnam he was a full-time graduate student and the father of two. Besides, he had already set his heart on politics, a path requiring less self-control, a quality he lacked, but great self-confidence, which he had in abundance...
...begins with her eyesight, which is myopic at best. She finds, to her horror, that the Nautilus machines are brown. An outrage even if it weren't true, which it isn't! The machines are clearly black, though I'm sure she would never deign to get close enough to them either to use them or to study their pigmentation. She finds newspapers near the stairmasters and stationary bikes, and as if that weren't the last straw, she finds no treadmills to set trash down next to. Although, as she says (and I believe her) health clubs across...
...someone who was used to great physical andemotional independence, being unable to see orride a bike or play basketball after the accidentwas very difficult. But she has persevered, and inthe meantime her eyesight has improved enough soshe can read for short periods at a time...
...they are friends too. These women are concerned with details most people have not dreamt of: the sleeve, the lace, the length of the train. One trait he and Hepburn had in common was their intense concentration on perfection. They could learn more from the mirror than common eyesight could perceive...