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Professor S. G. Ingesson interviewed Swedish teens and young adults who have dyslexia to learn about their educational experiences. His informants suggested a lot of interesting things to him. I was taken with one finding indicating that, as they aged, students reported differing feelings of well-being. Generally, they recollected that their feeling of well-being had been low during the elementary years. Even more reported feeling uncomfortable in the middle school years, but as they got older they got, they felt better, so that by their secondary years, the majority felt “good” or “very good.” In fact, in their last school years (ages 17–19 ) over 70% of the individuals reported that they felt “good” or “very good.”
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