Perseverance Can Help A Student With Dyslexia In The Future

1. What was notable about the story to you?

This story was notable to me because it showed how perseverance can help a student with dyslexia to learn and achieve success, despite their disability. Danielle has dyslexia however, through the support of her parents and teachers, self motivation, and hard-work, she is able to work with and work around her dyslexia. She is now a reporter on the Educational team of NPR, writing, interviewing, and narrating stories. This story was notable for me because many times you do not hear success stories for people with disabilities. Her success story was particularly interesting to me because it was not directly featured in the article. She mentions multiple times throughout her report about her personal …show more content…
How would the information in that story affect how you work with students with dyslexia in the future? Information from her story that will affect how I work with students with dyslexia in the future is the importance of patience, confidence in the student, and hard-work on both my end and the student’s end. When I work with students with dyslexia, I need to remember how it will take time and repetition for my students to trigger their visual memory to form sight words. If I use my patience, my students will understand that I am confident in their ability to learn and that I know the frustrations they feel when they cannot read, but I am there to help them along and take it step-by-step with them. Gabrielle speaks of a time when her parents and educators would create hundreds of index cards and go through them multiple times every day. Since her ability to sound out words does not come naturally, she had to memorize the words. Her desire to learn and motivation to read led her to hard work, which gave her positive results. These tips influence my future work with students with dyslexia because it reminds me of how important it is too remember my role as their teacher and overcome their disability …show more content…
With the prevalence rate of dyslexia being 5-17%, it is the most common Learning Disability in the United States. I was a person who has been misinformed of what dyslexia truly is, up to this point. Knowing now that dyslexia means people cannot sound out unfamiliar words and differentiating phonemes, I learned valuable teaching tips as a future educator. If students are taught phonics, they will most likely read and write more accurately. In comparing English to education systems of different countries, they teach phonics at an earlier age and more in depth, a concept I would like to adopt in my own classroom. Accommodations are also key in helping students with dyslexia. As an advocate for my students, I want to be able to help them receive the services and accommodations they need to excel within my classroom. Despite budgets, teachers are key players in fighting for a student. Having the knowledge of what dyslexia is and what students with dyslexia need to succeed, I feel confident in my ability to advocate for them, identify their needed accommodations, and help them to reach their highest potential within my classroom. Through patience, hard-work, and confidence in their ability, I will be able to serve students with dyslexia confidently in the