
Hard to Read: How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia
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What Is Dyslexia?
When Billy was in elementary school, he couldn't spell his own name. Guinevere Eden is a neuroscientist who studies dyslexia and this is a recording of a child in one of her studies. Most children at that age are able to send out the word Triv-o-trivial. It's not an easy word, trivialities. Flit-Trivialities. The worst thing for him was figuring out between lowercase B and D.
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