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Posted on 26/07/03

The gift of dyslexia

Nicholas Carson, 16, has an unusual contraption floating above his head.It is a foot-long, upside-down ice-cream cone anchored by ropes to each of his ears and to a point on his forehead. In the tip of this cone is where Nicholas nestles his roving, three-dimensional imagination -- his mind's eye -- when he needs to concentrate to read words or tell time.

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