Many of us remember the child in Taare Zameen Par-misunderstood, labelled lazy, punished for academic failure-only begins to flourish when a teacher recognises his dyslexia.
Google the question, “Are more boys than girls dyslexic?” and you’ll get urban myth laced with moralizing—not science or good psychology. To say that boy brains and girl brains of dyslexics work the ...