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Daily Mirror
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Susie Beever & Shawaz Ahmad

Girl, 12, thought she had 'brain damage', shocked when she's handed dyslexia diagnosis

A schoolgirl struggling to keep up with her classmates thought she had brain damage only to be handed shock dyslexia diagnosis.

Jessica Coultas, was aged nine, when she found herself wrestling to keep up with her classmates in reading and maths.

The young girl from Hull, England would punch herself in the head every day in frustration.

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