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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A reader. A scribe. Etc. What kind of career would ever allow for such accomodations? Will your child become a judge who can',t reAd and write? An elementary teacher who can't read? A journalist who can't write? Hard to understand this?[/quote]

I imagine you have a job, yes? But you haven't read this thread, or if you did you haven't retained the information. And yet you have a job. There are all sorts of different jobs for all sorts of different people with all sorts of different skills!

As has been said before, people get jobs that match their skills. Academia requires a very specific set of skills, and in this country reading for knowledge is a common one. Reading is not the only way to acquire knowledge, but it is an easy way to impart knowledge to a lot of people. Some people have difficulty reading, so there are options. Braille and audio books for example. A blind student is unlikely to become a race car driver, but that shouldn't prevent them from going to college. A dyslexic student may never become a copy editor, but that shouldn't prevent them from going to college.

What would be wrong with a person who's a judge who has difficulty reading and writing? It's possible to get audio versions of texts they'd need, or to read carefully through the few they might not be able to audio versions of. And to dictate what they would like to write, or write it slowly. Do you think a blind person couldn't be a judge?

I guarantee there are blind and dyslexic teachers.

What are you having difficulty understanding?[/quote]

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