The New Zealand Government's Failure to Recognise Dyslexic Secondary Students.

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"The New Zealand Government's failure to recognise dyslexia as a Special Learning Disability (SLD) seriously disadvantages a large number of New Zealand secondary school students." INTRODUCTION: "The limits of my language are the limits of my world." - Wittgenstein. Addressed generally in the Education Act (1989) and specifically in the respective curricula, the Ministry of Education makes no bones about the critical importance of literacy for all New Zealand students. "...all students will need to develop …

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