wanted to like Jack Horner’s “The Extraordinary Characteristics of Dyslexia.” As a teacher, I usually respond really positively to people who take learning disabilities and are able to extract strengths from them. Therefore, I was really on board with someone who wanted to talk about how he had pushed through a dyslexia diagnosis and zero college degrees to great intellectual success. Unfortunately, by the second page of his essay, he’d lost me. According to Horner, people who have dyslexia, “…think outside the box precisely because [they] have never been in one.…
Darnell is a 5th grade student with a learning disability and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. He has an issue with impulsive and inattentive behaviors that often get him in trouble in the classroom. Darnell has been suspended 26 times for about a combination of 30 days. He was told that he would still be provided services through in home tutoring during his suspension, but during his latest suspension he had only received services once so far.…
The extreme struggles I had with reading and writing were almost completely overcome. At the end of high school I ended up graduation with a 3.5 GPA. Still to this day there are a few things I struggle with, that I attribute to dyslexia. My spelling is still not great, fairly often I will have spelling mistakes when there is no auto correct. My reading is great when I use phonics, I am now about to understand the words I sound out, however I am still not very good at sight words.…
I was offered a position in Laredo Independent School District at Assistive Technology, and I took the job. I made it a point to attend any seminar on dyslexia. There is a restricted amount of jobs that pay generously in Laredo, and I started thinking of the children that pass through the school system undetected, then I decided to return to school. I had worked in excellent jobs in Dallas and San Francisco; nevertheless, the drop in pay was mind altering. Joey attended the Vidal M. Trevino School of Communications & Fine Arts Magnet School, and he grew into a wonderful young man.…
This chapter was about intelligence, dyslexia, learning styles, tests and structure builders. In more detail, there are proposed different types of intelligence, learning styles should not be believed, and people with dyslexia are more likely to see the big picture. This chapter was structured very similarly to the other chapters in the book which keeps it consistent. Personally, I particularly enjoyed when the author brought up dyslexia and the multiple ideas surrounding it.…
Dyslexia Everyone processes information differently with some people struggling more than others. A person with an average brain still may have a little trouble processing information sometimes but some people may have a genetic disorder or a trait that was passed down or inherited. This genetic disorder is called dyslexia. Dyslexia can be genetic or inherited with three parts of the brain affected, and multiple cures to help the brain be more efficient.…
The first learning disability I will inform about is dyslexia a sort of reading and writing disability. Dyslexia is a common condition that affects the way the brain processes written and spoken language. People with dyslexia are frequently exceedingly creative, but it is unclear whether such creativity comes from thinking outside the box or from having a brain that’s “ wired” a bit differently. It often runs in ancestries. The signs of dyslexia may include; the individual may read slowly and painfully, and experience decoding errors, especially with order of letters.…
Dyslexia is a learning disorder characterized by difficulty reading. Dyslexia can have a major effect on writing, spelling and even speaking. Dyslexia is a common condition that affects the way the brain processes written and spoken language (Understood. Org). “Symptoms of dyslexia often include late talking, learning new words slowly, and a delay in learning how to read” (Lapkin).…
They continued to instill a sense of perseverance in me. In the years proceeding my diagnoses with this disability I have had multiple educators and friends discourage me regarding my academic performance. One memory has stuck with me regarding an educator who grew impatient with my learning disability and asked me to the leave the room because I was not understanding the material “fast”…
It cannot hold back those warm fuzzy feelings I get when I get a giant hug from my youngest cousin and most importantly it cannot stop me from being the first person in my family to graduate from college. I have learned quite a lot from having a learning disability. I have learned the importance of hard work and dedication and that nothing academically was ever going to be handed to me on a silver platter. As a child who struggled with a learning disability I understand the importance of child literacy more than most. That’s why I chose to read to preschoolers for a community service…
Every single day of my life I struggle with Dyslexia, and every single day is different than the one before. As I face each day's new challenges, I am forced to figure out what methods work best for me personally. Dyslexia will always try to put obstacles in my path, but it will never hold me back from my true potential. Being diagnosed with a learning disability is a rough process, but through perseverance, determination, and self-analysis, every day I overcome the struggles of Dyslexia. While exiting elementary and entering junior high, I experienced extreme problems with learning and reading skills.…
Unfortunately, I have been heavily diagnosed with the excruciating learning disability of dyslexia. All of these negative terms were how I used to interpret the meaning behind this so-called disability. From kindergarten through eighth grade, all of my teachers at the private school I attended, Oregon Episcopal School, were well aware of this quality that made me different than the majority of the students. Imagine falling in a ditch alone and unnoticed struggling to climb out, through many different approaches focussing on how to succeed, I was fortunate enough to have teachers who have helped me build a bridge to get over that ditch. The other side of the bridge seemed too far to see at one point but I was never alone.…
Being brought up in a single parent household as the oldest of my mothers three children I have learned many things about hardship and I believe those things were key in making me as independent and driven as I am today. Because of my familys financial struggles growing up when I was sixteen I started to work full and part time as a secretary, host, server,etc. Balancing work and school above all else although it was hard it made me better for it. I became a more dependable and well rounded person who valued her education and time management.…
My traumatic brain injury caused a learning disability that I have had to learn to deal with every single day. My learning disability made me study more during school and taught me how to advocate for myself. Throughout my academic career I have had to overcome challenges like many other students, however my challenges were unique to me. My learning disability has taught me how to seek out help for resources.…
Dyslexia is an inherited condition that makes it extremely difficult to read, write, and spell in your native language, despite having an at least average intelligence. Dyslexia is very common, but has only been talked about in recent years. It was 1878 when German neurologist, Adolph Kussmaul, first used the phrase “word blindness” describing what we know as dyslexia today. The word dyslexia was first used by Rudolf Berlin of Stuttgart, Germany, in 1887 to describe the inability to read. In 1905 W.E. Burner published the first report of childhood reading difficulties in the U.S..…