July, 2007 – Alan Reid of Edinburgh wrote to us about the September article in which we told how thousands of Britons dismissed as "learning disabled" may simply have an eyesight condition that is easily treated. Alan, who campaigns to raise awareness of the condition, used our article to arouse the interest of BBC Radio Scotland who in June broadcast the premliminary results of a Scottish Executive study confirming the truly alarming scale of this misdiagnosis.
Katherine Walker,
Editor
The Reader's Digest UK edition
Editorial: July 2007