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Catchword for “lysdexia”
Catchword: lysdexia
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Part of Speech: n.
Quotation: Like my “lysdexia” only a “reasonable accommodation” is possible never victory, never recovery. The dyslexia was reasonably accommodated in some serendipitous ways beginning at the age of four in 1951 when my father who had been teaching me to read using phonics discovered, much to his displeasure, that I could not read sentences of more than two or at most three words.
Article or Document Title:
“IED” (URL)
Author:
George M. Henderson
Article, Document, Publication, Web Site:
Quality of The Light
Date of Publication:
Dec. 11, 2007
This catchword has yet to be researched.
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Comments:
A 2007 citation?  We’ve been using ‘lysdexia’ in conversation and email since our daughter was diagnosed in 1987.  I guess I’m glad to see that it’s finally making it into periodicals, but the osmosis seems a little slow.
by Bill Wickart 23 Jan 08, 0621 GMT

Reminds me of one of my favorite jokes, which begins (and ends):

A dyslexic walks into a bra…


by Trevor Simon 24 Jan 08, 0448 GMT
Or did you hear about the dyslexic agnostic who didn’t believe in dog?
by pkborzo 24 Jan 08, 0800 GMT
First heard it used in the 90’s on the Eek the Cat cartoon show - the episode had to do with the Squishy Bears dismantling an atomic device…
by Rich 24 Jan 08, 1005 GMT
“prelapsarian” meaning: before Adam and Eve ‘lapsed’and ate the apple.
by elizabeth Jardine 24 Jan 08, 1112 GMT

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