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Celia Stone is one of the most inspiring, yet unassuming women I’ve ever met.  She has changed the lives of both my husband and my daughter, along with thousands of other young people.

She has tackles every challenge that life has throws at her with pragmatism and the question, ‘how can we make a plan?’:  From fleeing the threat of violence and unrest in her native Zimbabwe in the 70’s, with her husband, 3 small children, £500 and whatever they could carry; to setting up a specialist dyslexia unit at the Yorkshire school where her husband taught.

She now has more than 35 years’ experience of working with children with special educational needs – including my husband who was thrown out of his local primary school aged 7, because they ‘couldn’t teach him’.  With Celia’s help, his dyslexia hasn’t held him back and he has gone on to become a successful entrepreneur, speaker and local businessman.  At 18, she screened him for Irlen lenses – coloured glasses which helped him read for the first time.  25 years later she did the same for our daughter.

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Math is not the only problem affecting students with learning disabilities appear to be in a fix this exam season. Students suffering from dyscalculia are having difficulty obtaining writers for their Arithmetic paper.

Dyscalculia is a math disorder where candidates have difficulty with spatial orientation as well as the concepts involved in mathematics. The state board conducts a special exam for them where their math paper is simplified and of a lower class 7 level. Hence students are only allowed writers from class 6 to write this paper.

Parents and students of this learning disability have been calling the board helpline stating their inability to find writers for their exam on March 15. Ashwini Sethi, a parent whose child was diagnosed with dyscalculia at 12 years of age said, “We had earlier found plenty of writers, most of them my daughter’s friends, who were studying in class 9 and helped her write her other papers. But now we are in a soup,” she said adding that even if she found a student willing to write her daughter’s papers, he/ she might not be able to understand the concepts and make mistakes.

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