Dyslexic Observation

Writing about this topic was very difficult for me, I can recall as if it was yesterday my fourth grade teacher Ms. Williams requesting a meeting with my parents to discuss my poor academic performance in her class. I remember her saying that I was one of those students who have fallen through the cracks of a failed system. She informed my parents that she had been teaching for over 25 years, and from her experience, she believes that I was dyslexic, both of my parents had no idea what the word dyslexic meant. Ms. Williams went on to explain what dyslexia was, she use as an example, my struggles with the spelling assignments in her class. She explained this was the main reason for my poor grades in spelling, was because people with dyslexia …show more content…
However, as is she was a fortune teller she warned my parents not to allow the school to place me in special education classes. I took a school-administered test about two weeks after the meeting with Ms. Williams, I can recall it being about a month or so later before the test, results came back. My parents had a meeting with the school administrators and were told that I had a serious learning disability and needed to be placed in special education classes. I remember the very day my parents told me I would be leaving Ms. Williams classroom and going to Mr. Davis's …show more content…
Williams’s classroom; I even reminded her that Ms. Williams said I did not need special education classes. Nevertheless, I believe mother gave me the same line the school administrators gave her, that is Ms. Williams is not an expert in this field. As I reflect back, there were several key reasons I formed a negative views of the situation. The stigmatism and the negative view of special education classes from my peers help shape my perspective. In addition, compounding the problem was the fact by age 10, I was 6 feet tall, which meant I was taller than most of the teachers at my school, which did not help the perception that I was older and academically slower than my fellow classmates were. However, after completing the fourth grade, which I consider to be my worst year in school, my parents told me if I got straight A's in all of the special education classes my fifth grade year, they would move me back into regular classes my sixth-grade year. I felt rejuvenated, I could now take a negative and turn it into a positive, and I started to form a plan that would help me with this task. The first thing I did was get a library card and next I join the summer reading program to help me with my