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...good to have you describe dyslexia accurately as both prevalent and remediable [May 13]. The existence of this condition in many intellectually normal Johnnies has been known since Neuropsychiatrist Samuel Orton's studies of Iowa school children, beginning in 1925. The founding of the Orton Society in 1949 anticipated by 17 years the newly formed committee. The society, too, has a nationwide, international membership of physicians, psychologists and educators. Dyslexia is recognized abroad, with intensive research and teaching programs in both Americas, many European centers, Australia and New Zealand...
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...Solutions. If pinpointed before his emotional problems become overwhelming, the dyslexic can readily be taught to overcome his reading problems. Techniques vary, but effective reading instruction is being given in many reading centers, including New York University's Reading Institute and the Orton Reading Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. Tutorial instruction at Columbia Teachers College clearly shows, says the college's Mrs. Marvin Sleisenger, that such children can learn if "we teach in slow motion." But Frances McGlannan, whose own son's dyslexia led her to found the Language Arts Center in Miami to help such children...
...this unsavory fun house of horrors, Playwright Orton tries to refract he face of evil from the distorting mirrors of the humanly grotesque, but us talents run more to seamy documentation than satirical savagery. He can be witty: "To be present at the conception is all that a reasonable child can expect of his father...
...trouble is that Playwright Orton did not set out to write a comedy of manners but a Stygian comedy of morals. Dipping his brush in the bile of Swift, he has managed to paint only an urban pastiche of Tobacco Road...