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In article <bg8AVBAZeDt4IwY8@bradymill.demon.co.uk>, Stuart Brady
<stuart@bradymill-no.spam-demon.co.uk> writes

>This has got me thinking... Is dyslexia something you've just got or you
>haven't got, or are there shades in between? 

That's a bit too technical for me to answer. I **think** the definition
is when you are more than 2 standard deviations in achievement below
expected on your averaged IQ. In other words a smart person could be
certified dyslexic for (say) reading even though the reading achievement
was slightly above average but an averagely smart person would have to
be truly terrible to get the required differential. Having said that my
daugther's remedial teacher (brilliant, a 73 yr old with a brain like an
28 yr old) had almost all her students with *below* average intelligence
and the dyslexia on top of that. Her idea with many of them was to get
them to be able to read a sun headline (and I'm almost not joking) aged
18. It's really very sad for these people indeed, be thankful.

>Does it have to affect your
>spelling -- or can it just affect numeracy, for example?

Oh numeracy is more common than spelling and reading I understand.
Remember the IQ tests used are very wide ranging indeed and many are
visual or aural to circumvent the medium affecting the measurement.

>BTW, I was fairly low down in terms of spelling and numeracy, when I was
>at primary school. I was doing 2nd/3rd year work in the 5th year. I
>understood the work, but I didn't do much because it was so boring. Then
>they moved me up to 5th year work, and I missed all of the stuff in
>between. I'm doing A-Level Maths now, but I still don't know my tables.

Sounds about right. See if you can get a test.

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Oz