Knowing all too well what these students were struggling with, the teacher pulled them aside for an intensive lesson. They could beat this thing if they only tried hard enough. Okay, open the spelling books to the front and look at the study method laid out there. Let's do it. The group goes through the process and on the first word, disaster.
Nobody gets it.
Robbie raises a tentative hand. This is the kid with dsylexia, whose horrid spelling is complicated by backwards and upside down letters. I don't get it. The chorus of agreement proves that not one of the group understands how to visualize. Only one has an identified learning disability.