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Over 500 men who attended the Gow School, an independent school for boys with developmental dyslexia, were given a follow-up questionnaire from 1 to 38 years after they left the school. More than half had graduated from college; business was the most frequently chosen major in college; most were employed in managerial or related business positions; and their adult reading habits and attitudes did not compare well with those of other men of similar socioeconomic backgrounds. Socioeconomic status and IQ were not predictive of adult outcome among these men in contrast to their effect in the general population. An important result was that severity of the reading problem upon entrance to Gow and the academic and remedial progress of the men while at the school were highly predictive of adult educational, occupational, and attitudinal status.
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This work was supported by funds from NIH grant HD00486, the Gow School, and the John F. Kennedy Institute.
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Finucci, J.M., Gottfredson, L.S. & Childs, B. A follow-up study of dyslexic boys. Annals of Dyslexia 35, 117–136 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02659183
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