This is the intelligent child who fails in school.

This is the child who reads “on “ for “no”, writes 41 for 14, d for b, or p for g, and can’t remember the sequence of letters that make up a word.

This is the child who loses homework and jacket; misplaces books; doesn’t know what day it is, or what year, or what season.

This is the child who calls breakfast ”lunch,” who is confused by “yesterday,” today,” and “tomorrow,” the child whose timing is always off.

This is the child who can’t follow multiple instructions.

This is the quiet child who bothers nobody in the classroom but does not learn, or consistently does not finish assignments.

This is the older child whose language comes out jumbled, who stops and starts in the middle of a sentence or an idea, who talks about hospitals, aminals, and emenies.

This is the child who can add and multiply but not subtract or divide, who can do math mentally but “doesn’t show his work.”

This is the child who skips words, omits them, or adds them when reading aloud.