I DID not catch John Blunt's article, but can sympathise with Mrs Patricia Flaherty's dismay at his apparently insensitive and inaccurate characterisations of dyslexic children.
However, if he took her advice and conducted (or even surveyed) research into dyslexia he would not 'discover that children who suffer from dyslexia are usually very bright, with above average IQ.'
Some dyslexic children do have above average IQs and some are very bright, but overall the average IQ of dyslexic children is in the low 90s.
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