A friends son is dyslexic. Apart from many of the problems described above I am told that he particularly has difficulty with what I describe as "short cut thinking". Its the kind of situation where he is trying to explain something to you, you quickly grasp where he is heading, but for him to follow his own train of thought he has to work through the "chain of thought" in its correct sequence, he cant short cut.

I think at times it is a problem we can all have, but from what I am told, it seems exagerated in him. Do other dyslexics have this problem? He is an intelligent young man in Higher Education at the moment and still finds this part of his dyslexia very frustrating when communicating with others because it can seem to make him slow witted which is not the case.

He has worked so hard to overcome the other elements of his dyslexia it seems a pity that this still remains such an issue for him. Any advice for him from those with more experience of coping with this kind of thing? I am posting this anonymously as I do not have permission to raise the issue so I appologise in but I do not want to do anything that could identfy him or his family without that permission.