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The Mystery, Challenges and Beauty of Dyslexia

Wolf's university lecture reframing dyslexia — its real difficulties and its distinctive strengths.

UNC Chapel Hill × Maryanne Wolf

Dec 12, 2017

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Wolf’s 2017 Burnett Seminar at UNC-Chapel Hill — a full evening on dyslexia’s science and its meaning. In the university’s description, she explains “why dyslexia represents a different organization of the brain rather than a disorder.”

Watch on YouTube (2 hr 13 min).

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