Don’t let dyslexia hold you back!
By Ross Wilding
I was lucky enough to attend a school within walking distance of my home, and to start at just four years old in the Reception class. It was thought (by my parents and my teachers) that this would give me a head start in the basic skills of reading and writing, so they were baffled by some of the peculiar spellings I adopted, such as how, when asked to give a word beginning with the letter “B” for example, I wrote, “Botatoes”: how “d”s and “b”s and “p”s, “n”s and “m”s all got muddled, and how, at seven years old, when taking a small exam, I explained to my mother that I thought I would have done very well indeed, “If I had just been able to read the questions”!
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