ABSTRACT

This chapter presents a case study about Jankó, who was almost 15 years old at the time of the second interview. He is not as talkative as he used to be and his attitude toward the world has changed radically compared with the first interview four years ago. During the last four years, he has struggled a lot with his learning endeavors, but recently there have been some positive changes in his life. Jankó received his first professional diagnosis at the Educational Counselling Service. The results of the Ildkó Meixner Test and the Meeting Street School Screening Test (MSSST) revealed that Jankó's reading was slow and below developmental expectations. Additionally, he exhibited sequential visual perceptual and visual-motor problems as well as poor verbal memory. Jankó is now in a non-state funded school where at the age of 14, he is receiving learning method training. It should be noted that such schools are actually quite rare in Hungary.