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The exercises did not replicate dyslexia itself. Instead, they disrupted skills adults, and children without dyslexia or other learning disabilities, normally take for granted — hearing directions, recognizing letters, writing and remembering words — while instructors applied pressure familiar to many classrooms.
Participants rotated through six stations. In one, they attempted to fill out a worksheet on tide pools while listening to a recording of overlapping, muffled voices that dissolved into a blur of numbers, colors and sea creatures. In another, they covered their writing hand and traced letters by watching their movements through a mirror.
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As Kevin Hussey accepted the chain of office as Cathaoirleach of Longford Municipal District last month, it marked a milestone that his childhood self would never have imagined was possible.
Growing up with undiagnosed dyslexia, school became such a daily struggle for Kevin that he left education early, fully believing his future would be limited after a teacher told him he would amount to nothing.
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Romance is the key that finally unlocked the world of reading for Amelia Lord after she had avoided it throughout her life.
Love was all over her TikTok feed in the form of BookTok – the app’s literary subcommunity – just as she was searching for a new hobby to take up after moving from her home in Newport to Gloucester.
The 28-year-old social media and events coordinator did not read at all before she was 21.
Although “intrigued”, a dyslexia diagnosis made her think she couldn’t do it.
“I kept seeing BookToks on my TikTok,” she said. “I was seeing loads about it and it piqued my interest.”
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