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Vintage dyslexia: Life magazine 1944

Posted on March 25, 2017 by lostandfoundbooks

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On April 10, 1944, Life magazine published a feature article about dyslexia.

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Posted in Identifying dyslexia, Learning to read, Research, School, Stigma, Vintage | Tagged 1940s, Chicago's Dyslexia Institute, dyslexia tests, dyslexia tests and treatments, history of dyslexia, history of medicine, Life magazine, sociology of medicine, vision tests, WW2 | 2 Replies

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dys·lex·i·a (\dis-ˈlek-sē-ə\) A general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, but that do not affect general intelligence. (Oxford dictionary)

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