The nine-year-old boy sat in the next room while his parents talked to the doctor.
'I'm so sorry,' the lady in the white coat said apologetically. 'We usually can find at least one area of strength in these children, but in your son's case, we can find no areas to build upon. He has such severe dyslexia. In four hours of very casual testing, he couldn't even recall either of your first names.'
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