How to be happy though human / by W. Béran Wolfe.

B. Types of pronunciation by child with dyslexia strephosymbolica : MANHATTAN - NATTAHNAM or NAM- TAHNAT or MANNATTAH C. Normal writing, left to right: "TcXQUAyciJr D. Mirror writing, right to left, normal for left- handed : W We have seen a number of children brought to the Juvenile Court for various school delinquencies because their inability to read was misinterpreted by their teachers as stupidity or wilfulness. When such a child is placed in the ungraded classes, next to morons and feeble-minded children, he quite naturally protests because he knows he is not stupid, even though he cannot read. This type of child is often exceptionally clever at mechanical manipula¬ tions. The discouragement that results from this mis¬ interpretation is so profound that the child feels that there is no place for him in school, and he gravitates naturally to the street and to the gang where he can establish his validity by a different kind of courage and wit. We have developed a technique of teaching these children to read as well as normally right-handed children, and once such children master the technique they frequently read better than right-handed children. Finally, there is a great group of physical disabilities which are not disabilities at all in the medical sense, whose influence on the individual’s attitude toward the problems of existence is very profound. It is a psychological truism that severe disabilities, such as the loss of a leg, a complete paralysis of both legs, total blindness, or severe heart disease are not as crippling, psychologically, as a tiny disfiguring mole on the end of a girl’s nose, variegated colouring of eyelashes, a fat ankle, or a hare-lip. We once had occasion to see a child who was born with an unfortunate anomaly of the skin of her face. At the age of twelve she had undergone more than thirty skin graft operations, and had spent most of her life in one hospital or another. Her face was horribly disfigured, yet this