Written Language Disorder: Medical researchers fear there's no cure for bad writing

[Dennis Baron]

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Written Language Disorder: Medical researchers fear there's no cure  
for bad writing

A group of Mayo Clinic researchers has found that almost 15 percent of  
otherwise normal school-aged children in Rochester, Minnesota, are  
suffering from Written Language Disorder. According to Dr. Slavica K.  
Katusic, while Written Language Disorder, or WLD, does not pose as  
great a threat as the H1N1 virus, it’s actually just as common in  
school children as reading problems, with boys twice as likely as  
girls to be symptomatic.

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Department of English
University of Illinois
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