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Until recently, dyslexia an and other reading problems were a mystery to most teachers and parents. As a result, too many kids passed through school without master the printed page.
S1. _______ Some were treated as mentally deficient: many were left functionally illiterate (文盲的)，unable to ever meet their potential. But in the last several years, there’s been a revolution in that we’ve learned about reading and dyslexia,
S2. _______ Scientists are using a variety of new imaging techniques to watch the brain at work. Their experiments have shown that reading disorders are most likely the result of what is, in an effect,
S3. _______ faulty wiring in the brain—not lazy, stupidity or a poor home
S4. _______ environment. There’s also convincing evidence which dyslexia
S5. _______ is largely inherited. It is now considered a chronic problem for some kids, not just a “phase”. Scientists have also discarded another old stereotype that almost all dyslexics are boys. Studies indicate that many girls are affecting as well
S6. _______ and not getting help. At same time, educational researchers have come up
S7. _______ with innovative teaching strategies for kids who are having trouble learning to read. New screening tests are identifying children at risk before they get discouraged by year of
S8. _______ frustration and failure. And educators are trying to get the message to parents that they should be on the alert for the first signs of potential problems. It’s an urgent mission, Mass literacy is a relative new
S9. _______ social goal. A hundred years ago people didn’t need to be good readers in order to earn a living. But in the Information Age, no one can get by with knowing how to read well and
S10. _______ understand increasingly complex material.
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