Reading was hard for Cora for five years. Her podcast about why just won NPR's national prize

Cora Walsh walks home from middle school in Rockville Centre, Long Island, thinking about how brains work — because for almost five years, nobody could tell her why reading was so hard for her when she worked at it longer than her friends. The answer, eventually, was dyslexia. Cora turned the whole journey into a podcast, 'Dyslexia and MEE', and this month it won the grand prize for middle school in NPR's Student Podcast Challenge, chosen from nearly 1,500 submissions across 42 states and the District of Columbia. 'I feel really excited,' Cora said; her mother Emily Johnson added, 'This is a kid that works so hard and has such a good attitude. I'm so proud of her.' Cora's next goal is already set: she wants to be a doctor, and to study neuroscience at Princeton.

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