I failed my first year of 1st grade. I had problems reading because the words seemed to blur togather. Oh and I choose to bite the hell out of the teachers arm one day. The next year I was one of 4 in the advanced reading because my new teacher took the time to help me with a few tricks. Including using a ruler under the line I wanted to read to help block part of the problem. I still half to do this with some books. It works great.