Impassioned high school student, Julia de Montagnac, interviewed Dr. Brock Eide (Dyslexic Advantage co-founder) about his creation of the Neurolearning Dyslexia Screener. Julia is on a mission to inspire self-esteem in dyslexic elementary school students through art....
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Q: WHAT ABOUT DYSLEXIA AND READING COMPREHENSION? Answer: For many older and certainly remediated dyslexic people silent reading comprehension may be strong and unimpaired. Students who still struggle significantly with decoding will obviously have trouble with reading comprehension, as might be expected. But after the intensive work of decoding is overcome, reading comprehension weaknesses may become more difficult to understand. Dyslexic students who are partially or perhaps fully remediated may have difficulty with certain types of text, especially if they involve long and uncommon words. Sometimes these readers may only have trouble with college-prep or college-level reading due to additional challenges like the need to understand complex grammar. But students with dyslexia plus some other factor – whether its ADHD, low working memory, and a […]
It is very common for people to want to choose whether they want to formally disclose their dyslexia, and to whom. This may change over the years and of course depending on particular contexts. WHY DOES A STUDENT CHOOSE NOT TO DISCLOSE IN HIGH SCHOOL? Some...
Question: How can I tell that students are dyslexic if they're not reading aloud? Last week a high school teacher in my course asked how she might be able to tell that a student may be dyslexic if they don't read out loud in her class. Once a student moves into upper...
Question: How Do I Help My Student Go Back to School? For many students, it will be a relief to get back to school because of all the disruptions in the past. Teachers, principals, and administrators are aware of the impact of the pandemic and school disruptions over...
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“…the progress of civilization, can, in many ways, be charted by the actions of history’s most gifted and talented contributors to the arts, sciences, and all of their areas of human performance…” — Joseph Renzulli, UConn Three Ring Conception of Giftedness In a clarion call for society to recognize the importance of developing creative productivity in young people, Joe Renzulli makes the point that “the most efficient lesson learners are not necessarily those persons who go on to make important contributions in the realm of creativity.” This point is undoubtedly true for many creative dyslexics who have made and are making important creative contributions to the world. He talks about “schoolhouse giftedness” which he also calls “test- taking or lesson-learning giftedness” and “creative […]
Writing is so difficult for people with dyslexia, it's a reasonable question to ask whether certain types of writing might come more naturally than others. AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND PERSONA WRITING As highlighted in Philip Schultz's example and in his book...
If you're hoping to find ways to get your students reading independently for fun this summer, check out some of the wonderful resources available through Storyline Online and Learning Ally. STORYLINE ONLINE First, Storyline Online: It's a free resource where...
A nice family-friendly movie based on a true story is "Rescued by Ruby". It's a story of a high-spirited and difficult-to-train animal shelter dog who met up with a high-spirited and difficult-to-train state policeman (Daniel O'Neil). The two connected on multiple...
"We were shooting and I said: ‘I can not do this’. I was going to quit.” — Manuel Garcia-Rulfo Manuel Garcia-Rulfo had big shoes to fill - following on Matthew McConaughey's Mickey Haller in Netflix's remake of The Lincoln Lawyer. English is a second language...
"Schultz, founder and director of The Writers Studio, chronicles the challenges he faced as a poet, fiction writer, and teacher that led him to see the aesthetic and psychological value of creating a writing persona. He has long confronted a pervasive inner critic...
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“If somebody asked me if I could live my life again without dyslexia, I would say no, because you recognise things and you do things differently to the way everybody else does, and that gets you to the front of the queue. You see things which are very obvious to you. I’m very practical and visual – that’s what I’m drawn to. And you find ways around challenges and it gives you a different perspective on life.” — Matt Baker of Our Farm in the Dales In the United Kingdom, research has suggested that one in ten people are dyslexic, but besides being over-represented in schools of engineering and art design, dyslexia is also found more commonly in agricultural students (one in five). […]
