I know, I know, dyslexia is not just about reading and writing, it's an overused and blunt term to cover all kinds of processing difficulties. But some sort of description is needed to make children who have difficulty feel it is not entirely their fault that they find some aspects of learning harder than their classmates. Labels can be exploited (part of Stringer's point is that millions are wasted on doling out free laptops) but when I had one of my children assessed by an educational psychologist, who identified a huge disparity in his ability on certain tests, it made a vast difference. He no longer felt that he was lazy (the school's diagnosis) or stupid (his own). Afterwards, he actually tried harder.