She appeared lazy, hardly completing her class work, and would mostly leave her homework books at school to avoid doing it. As a result, Shirleen was moved to a different school because her parents felt that her needs were not properly addressed. At the new school, the parents quickly realised that the issue was not the previous nor the one she had been transferred into. LAUGHING STOCK“Some teachers made her spell on the blackboard, only to have the rest of the students laugh at her. My family said it was teenagehood and I was taken to counselling.”It was while undergoing counselling that he was diagnosed with mild dyslexia.

Source: Daily Nation December 23, 2019 09:00 UTC