One in ten have some form of dyslexia: Peter Hitchens discusses

[@d.jparer5184]

Give Peter his own show!

[@mnmn5303]

Or at least clearly label which of the Dewbs & Co's he's going to be on, I'd watch it live!

[@d.jparer5184]

@@mnmn5303 they still haven't uploaded the full episode

[@jackmatthews4836]

I would watch this every time it was on telly

[@TheAnonymousfruit]

Recent Census data informs us that 1/6 of us in the UK right now are not even born here. I’m sure that helps to explain the lower literacy rates…

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Only partly, I know plenty of British illiterates, including a headteacher's daughter.

[@DrMildayan]

I am badly dyslexic, and was told be my teachers in primary school that I would never amount to anything, kicked out of school at 14. I have now done both a doctorate and post doc at Oxford university. So for those in the same situation as I was, don’t believe them you can do it.

[@run2cat4run]

Well said, i had a hard time in school since I’m dyslexic too

[@mickey2927]

What do you do for a living?

[@OdditiesandRarities]

gosh it's awful that they said that about you

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Not in English I presume.

[@carolebarker2195]

@@OdditiesandRarities Isn't it though?! Thankfully, it didn't turn out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy in this case.

[@seanmoran2743]

Spot on Peter Britains education system is Shocking

[@JohnWilliams-iw6oq]

Some of the most highly educated people I have met have been thick and some of the most uneducated people I have met have been of far greater use to themselves and their community than an intellectual.

[@ncmcdonnell5486]

My mother taught 6 and 7 years old children in an infant school for 18 years with average class sizes of 32- 33 children. Obviously that was a lot of years ago. So about 600 children in all. No child ever left her class at the end of the year unable to read and write fluently. If a child was having difficulties, she gave that child extra tuition within the class. She said that if dyslexia exists, it must be a very rare condition. Poor teaching, on the other hand, was and is all too common.

[@ncmcdonnell5486]

@@83c91 My post is true.

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Agreed, lazy teachers are in it because they can't think of anything else to do. Too much reliance on a cookie cutter curriculum also.

[@nickmiller76]

Poor parenting is very common as well, getting more so, and also has a powerful effect.

[@Slarti]

There is a field of thought out there that dyslexia does not exist and what we are seeing is simply late development in literacy. This is very controversial because there is so much talk and diagnosis of dyslexia.

[@anthonybartlett6924]

my mum taught all 3 of us kids to read before we even started school. normal english class after listening to 2 or 3 kids struggling to read out line their dedicated part the teacher would say bartlett tell the class what happens in the story as far as you have got. i was by no means the brightest but could read better than anyone else. thanks mum.

[@Daisy-tl2lh]

how many school leavers leave school unable to read and write, no matter what is said its the fault of the school and its teachers every child starting primary school is eager to learn until somewhere along the way something happens and they are switched off ... its a scandal and if schools weren't so full of other cultures children unable to even speak english the teacher would have more time for our own

[@TaxingIsThieving]

Got nothing to do with it, British kids don't want to learn. Lazy teachers and liberal parents too scared to discipline.

[@TaxingIsThieving]

This explains a lot.

[@noneofyoubusiness4895]

By the way what? By the way what?! We'll never know now ...

[@mattlm64]

Dyscalculia is possibly a bigger problem with people unable to understand basic numeracy.

[@B123-s4j]

That's why they haven't understood that the greatest transfer of wealth in human history has just happened..

[@oniondesu9633]

another made up condition to excuse terrible teaching standards

[@luciusseneca2715]

There's a great book published by a disillusioned math professor under the pseudonym "Professor Doom" called "Why Johnny can't Read, Write or do 'Rithmatic despite having a College Degree." If you can get it, give it a look before sending your kid to a US university.

[@TaxingIsThieving]

00:50 What? 1:45 Very interesting 2:05 Nonsense

[@johncrow5552]

Yes but what about micro aggression's!

[@johnspillman5403]

He does people who are dyslexic a disservice , yes there are many degrees of dyslexia and am one, I get who and how, when went and add to stop brain from doing ever when know I will do it Just an example, and when I was school and I would have 12 spelling to learn over weekend I would spend 2 / 3 trying to remember them and mum would test me and i would only remember 3, plus lot more am also hypermobily with EDS connection tissue genetic syndrome and some specialists are linking dyslexia with autism and adhd, basically the brain is wired differently ask that me to rethink things about dyslexia

[@drrepair]

Peter is very well prepared evidently. It's professional to alert the interviewed of the actual topics.

[@karlsilverone]

Dyslexia does not make you illiterate, no matter how many inflections you put in your opening delivery...

[@madelainepetrin1430]

Many people who are diagnosed with dyslexia have a problem with binocular vision. It's easy to cure and should be checked early.

[@michaelcoward1902]

Is the next culture war going to be against dyslexic people?

[@JoBlakeLisbon]

This presenter is fine as wine.

[@deadinthebed963]

That blonde woman was useless all she said was the obvious which Peter himself inferred and moved on

[@shaunrobjohn7712]

You cant tell people they are thick anymore,it might hurt their feelings.

[@aljones75]

You’re thick

[@charliesmithers7663]

I wonder what DNA - National Dyslexic Association - make of this

[@gedhuffadine1873]

9 in 10 dont!

[@run2cat4run]

And?

[@Elizabeth-jd3mn]

1 in 10 is still a very high number of people failed at school and potentially disadvantaged for life because of it. All kids should be screened for learning difficulties so everyone is spotted early.

[@DiamondMcNamara]

God is in charge of dyslexia, Peter, is HE not?

[@STEVEBINNION1]

ph = v look at me

[@jamespoulton8097]

Could have handled the dyslexia a bit more softly.

[@paulthompson5030]

At least it wasn't Peter Griffin talking about it.

[@mickey2927]

There is no such thing as dyslexia. It's laziness to not learn and educate yourself.

[@jacksmith3095]

Lol; what a remedial.

[@Avfcphil1313]

Whether or not Dyslexia is a real thing, there are children who learn to read and write easily and those for whom it is a gargantuan task. You probably haven't witnessed this difference first hand.

[@unicron2109]

Yes, Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Leonardo da Vinci were all throughly lazy. Just imagined what they could have achieved if they bothered to educate themselves.

[@user-ce9xe1qe8i]

Why do the brains of dyslexic people light up differently in scans when they read then?