Neurological Disorders

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dyslexia

Dan Bolser

2005-09-25, 10:35 am

Hello,

I was looking for a dyslexia newsgroup, but this was the closest thing I
could find (apart from perhaps alt.support.autism), so sorry if this
question is inappropriate for this ng.

I am looking for data on the incidence of dyslexia in higher research
students. I am a dyslexic Ph.D student, and I was wondering how much of
a rarity (or how common) the condition is among people at this level.

When I did a masters my advisor told me that when he got his Ph.D he was
in the paper, because he was dyslexic too... The headline was 'Dyslexic
gets PhD'.

I would be very interested to know how much more common this is known to
be these days.

Thanks for any help or guidance you can give,

Dan.

Amy Sargent

2005-10-06, 10:49 pm

There does appear to be an active newsgroup called alt.support.dyslexia. In
case you aren't able to access it from your news client, you might try
reading older posts at http://groups.google.com/ (apparently, they have
taken over all the posts from the old http://www.deja.com, or Deja News).

"Dan Bolser" <dan.bolser@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:df9k5a$fi2$1@gemini.csx.cam.ac.uk...
> Hello,
>
> I was looking for a dyslexia newsgroup, but this was the closest thing I
> could find (apart from perhaps alt.support.autism), so sorry if this
> question is inappropriate for this ng.
>
> I am looking for data on the incidence of dyslexia in higher research
> students. I am a dyslexic Ph.D student, and I was wondering how much of
> a rarity (or how common) the condition is among people at this level.
>
> When I did a masters my advisor told me that when he got his Ph.D he was
> in the paper, because he was dyslexic too... The headline was 'Dyslexic
> gets PhD'.
>
> I would be very interested to know how much more common this is known to
> be these days.
>
> Thanks for any help or guidance you can give,
>
> Dan.