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This is on point.

I'm Meagnacachrabardi.

We're joined today by Tim Odegard.

He's professor of psychology and shareholder of the Murphy chair of excellence in

dyslexic studies at Middle Tennessee State University. He's also host of the

podcast Dyslexia uncovered.

Professor Odergard, welcome to Onpoint.

Thanks.

Thanks for having me.

I would love it if you could sort of take us back into your own childhood as a start.

When you were in second or third grade and you were in school and you had sitting at your desk with a book or an assignment in front of you, Professor Odegard,

can you describe to us exactly what you saw as you tried to read?

Well, that's a great question.

I saw a page full of words,

are words that I knew that most of them, if I couldn't recognize them by sight from memorization,

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