PEDIATRICS Vol. 64 No. 6 December 1979, pp. 978
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Dyslexia: It's Real

Ralph Cobrinik MD1

1 Saint Barnabas Medical Center, Livingston, NJ 07039

Dr Levine's commentary1 is a disservice to children with dyslexia. While there are other reasons for learning problems, as he points out, many children suffer from this specific entity. It is of more than academic interest that dyslexia finally be recognized and accepted; failure to do so will serve to perpetuate the voo-doo "diagnoses" and "therapy" so many of these children are subjected to.

My definition,2 "A dyslexic child is one in whom there are no or almost no signs of neurological, intellectual, environmental, or primary psychological pathology, who has had adequate pedagogic exposure, and still is unable to read or spell with the same degree of success that he experiences in other areas," defines a large specific group of children who deserve to have their problems specifically addressed.