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Yahoo! Answers is an online system for posing and answering questions. The questions are sometimes simple and fact-based (”What is the capital of Mnop?”), but sometimes they are more complex—similar to those I get by e-mail. One of the questions caught my eye: “How to Teach a Teenager With a Learning Disability How to Spell?”

There were two answers when I looked at it, both of which contain a grain of truth but neither of which were sufficient. Here they are:

• arrange with their school for them to have a tutor, there are many around that will work for a low fee, perhaps even a freind of your family would be willing to help? or a family member?
• First depends what is the disability, you need know the limits of the child can. What the child’s mental age, at what grade level all of these factor need to address first before trying spell. If not, you could be setting your self for a fall.

Link to the question about spelling. Amazon link to Dixon’s book.