When a teacher of a city school told Divya that her daughter Ishita was not fit for mainstream education, she fought everyone to send her daughter to a boarding school. Daughter Ishita, now 27, is a student of Karstad University in Sweden. But because society and parents don’t know, don’t recognise and are in denial,” said Divya, the founder trustee and president of Breaking Through Dyslexia. “Sometimes parents want their children only to go to IIT or pursue medicine. Breaking Through Dyslexia and Madras Dyslexia Association have been conducting a five-week certificate course in identification and training methodology of children with dyslexia and specific learning disabilities for parents and teachers.

Source: The Telegraph July 21, 2019 21:12 UTC