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...staff at Los Angeles' 60-year-old landmark Central Library had long suspected that the four towers containing most of the library's books were potential chimney flues. The towers turned out to be just that as a conflagration engulfed the largest library in the West last week. More than 250 firemen fought the blaze for more than six hours...
...this audience at Landmark College in Putney, Vt., survival with any sense of self-esteem has been a lifelong vexation. The students are dyslectics, born with a condition that limits their ability to process received information into language. They tend to reverse numbers and letters (write w-a-s as s-a-w) and leave out whole phrases. Although they may understand a complex passage read aloud to them, they cannot read it themselves or write down what they know about it. Dyslectics--an estimated 10% to 12% of the U.S. population--often do not realize what is the matter...
Marr's students are fully aware of their affliction and have come to Landmark from all over the country. Founded in September, it is the first postsecondary school in America devoted exclusively to teaching dyslectics. Typical is Andy Thompson, 26, who quit Franklin University in Columbus after fumbling through his classes, then got fired as an electronics technician because, as his wife Jane explains, "they said he was too slow and inattentive." Trey Smith, another Landmark enlistee, had similar symptoms and his own deep frustrations. A superb pulling guard at his Dallas high school, Smith saw a raft of football...
Dyslexia is incurable. Although Landmark and a handful of other institutions are proving that something can be done about it, the longer in life a dyslectic waits to undertake specialized instruction, the harder the job, partly because of accumulated frustrations. "You can imagine what it's like," says James Baucom, Landmark's director of education, "to be 17 years old and get up to read your report in front of a class and not be able to read a word...
...Landmark the prescription is, indeed, toughness. While other dyslectic programs, such as the highly regarded ones at Southern Illinois University and the University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh, employ learning crutches (e.g., tape- assisted reading or tutors during tests), Landmark's 82 students take the work straight as it comes, with lots of it. From 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., five days a week, some students in a special precollege group drill at tasks as elementary as multiplication tables and beginners' reading. Each precollege student also takes a daily one-hour private tutorial...