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“One minute your teen is cool, calm, and rational, and the next minute he’s a screaming, irrational, emotional train wreck. If this is the typical teen, imagine the one with executive skills weaknesses—can’t find anything (“Mom, where did you put my backpack?!”), doesn’t watch the road, no sense that deadlines really do exist in the world, willing to try whatever his friends do. If you have a teen with executive skills weaknesses, it’s like taking the typical teen and cranking up the volume—everything is louder, more intense, more scattered.”
― Richard Guare, Smart but Scattered Teens: The "Executive Skills" Program for Helping Teens Reach Their Potential

“The delayed response time is seen both in tests of listening to the sounds of language and responding to visually presented symbols. These delays could explain why individuals with dyslexia tend to read more slowly. It is also possible that because of the problem with timing, children with dyslexia may not hear the sounds and rhythms of language in the same way that others do. This may explain why they have difficulty breaking down words into component sounds or blending sounds into words. Visual”
― Jody Swarbrick, The Everything Parent's Guide To Children With Dyslexia: All You Need To Ensure Your Child's Success

“Many children with dyslexia are extremely bright, and often their pattern of weaknesses and strengths leaves them highly functional in many areas, even though they struggle in others. For example, your child may read very slowly, but with excellent comprehension, and she may have a strong ability to retain information learned from oral instruction and class demonstrations. Through hard work and determination, your child may be able to keep up in class and generally earn B's and C's in classwork. With such a child, you may find it difficult to qualify for school services, even with a diagnosis of dyslexia — the school may take the position that the dyslexia is mild and does not affect her ability to learn.”
― Jody Swarbrick, The Everything Parent's Guide To Children With Dyslexia: All You Need To Ensure Your Child's Success

“From 1979 to 1988, it concluded, Harvard admitted only 13.2 percent of Asian Americans, compared with 17.4 percent of whites. Applicants from California and those intending to study biology—two disproportionately Asian American groups—had lower admission rates as well. Accounting for most of the admissions gap between white and Asian applicants, federal investigators concluded, was “preference given to legacies and recruited athletes—groups that are predominantly white.”
― Daniel Golden, The Price of Admission (Updated Edition): How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges--and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates