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She'll Catch Up
“Oh, she’ll catch up,” is what Jane recalled her daughter Susan’s teachers saying throughout first and second grades. Susan, now 12, was in the lowest reading group in her classroom but teachers assured Jane that Susan was very bright and would catch up shortly.
In truth, Susan wasn’t catching up. As peers began moving past her in reading, Jane became more anxious and worried.
“But, he’s so smart, he can’t be dyslexic!”
When I begin to suspect that a child may be dyslexic, one of the sure-fire things to tip me off is observing a really bright student struggle with reading a simple text.
When discussing my concerns with teachers, they often say, “But, he’s so smart, he can’t be dyslexic!”
Dyslexia does not have any correlation to a person’s intelligence and in fact, people with dyslexia often have above average IQ’s. We assume that if a person is smart that they are a strong reader. Dyslexia defies this assumption.