(I) In any school, in any week of the year a dyslexic child experiences a huge amount of failure. (II) Without self-confidence no real progress is possible. (III) With sequencing difficulties, any form of writing or maths is going to present severe problems. (IV) The dyslexic child cannot fail to notice that almost all the other children can do the work fairly easily. (V) He therefore concludes that he must be stupid and his confidence goes.