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David Haugh: Blackhawks pick Adam Boqvist ready for anything after dealing with dyslexia

Around sixth grade, Blackhawks first-round draft choice Adam Boqvist started hating homework more than most kids his age did.

His teachers noticed. His parents, Patric and Helena, agreed. What was wrong?

"It was tough on Adam in the beginning," Patric said in a phone interview from the family's home in Falun, Sweden. "But we knew something wasn't right."

Tests revealed Adam's issues were due to dyslexia, a learning disability that's neurological in origin and characterized by difficulty decoding words. Imagine having to read this sentence three or four times for it to make sense. Think of letters being jumbled so that simple, familiar words suddenly looked

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