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	Dr Peter Harries is an historian by discipline and author of several historical and educational articles published in the academic press and various refereed journals. It was whilst tutoring several undergraduate seminar groups more than ten years ago that he first noticed the lack of correlation between intelligence, effort, and achievement which started him thinking about the effects of different teaching methodologies on students' cognition. After taking courses in teaching, including for those with specific learning difficulties, and widespread reading and research, the Ashridge Institute for Dyslexia was founded. The purpose of this was twofold. Firstly, to help adults who had missed out on educational success because of undiagnosed learning difficulties whilst at school. This could have been due to dyslexia or other specific learning difficulties.		People with dyslexia are often to be found working at a lower level in employment than their intelligence and ability would otherwise permit, and doing vocational jobs requiring little paperwork. Although highly competent, they quite often resist promotion into managerial posts because they are fearful of being 'found out' as not being literate or numerate. The second reason for the Ashridge Institute for Dyslexia being established was to help those people still in education who have a specific learning difficulty and to give them the chance to be brought up to the standard of literacy and numeracy of their non-dyslexic contemporaries and so improve their chances both of examination and career sucess.