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I usually avoid posting knee-jerk reactions, but this is one that provoked it for me. Under the headline, “They told me at school that I was stupid,” Saiqa Chaudhari of the Bolton (UK) News dscribes the case of a student whose reading problems were overlooked until she was 16 years old.

A TEENAGER whose dyslexia went undiagnosed for more than a decade says she is now having to fight to get the specialist support she is entitled to.

Experts only realised Stephanie Grimshaw, aged 17, had the condition last year.

The student, from Kearsley, now attends Bolton Sixth Form College, in Little Lever, but says she is struggling to get the equipment she needs to study effectively.

“It was a relief to find out what the problem was,” said Stephanie.

“I was always told at school that I was stupid, but now I know that I am not.

“I left school with very few qualifications because I wasn’t given any support, and I am still not being given the help I need.”

If you’re in need of a reason to grit your teeth and say, “Grrr,” read Ms. Chaudhari’s story.