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Dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia

What a specific learning disability is and is not, how dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia show up in an ordinary classroom, and what a class teacher can actually do — plus the signs that are commonly mistaken for carelessness.

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