My Experience With Dyslexia

Perhaps the most significant challenge that I have faced in my academic career has been my Dyslexia. I found out about this learning disability when I was young and one of my teachers noticed my test scores were not matching up with my skill level and when I was given a written test and a verbal test I preformed significantly better in the verbal test, which they said was due to the Dyslexia making it difficult for me to write down information that I already knew. After they noticed this I spent

how to adapt with my learning disabilities. By all means, I have found out that dyslexia has transformed me into a wonderful young man. Most kids inherit the same body figures, shape and height as their parents. I’ve acquired blonde hair, blue eyes, and extremely tall lean body. My parents are the total opposite of me and are very short with a little more meat on them. My father has black hair, and my mom has brown hair and both are short. You’re probably wondering where I got my genes from. Well

Over coming an obstacle The summer of 1996, my father and I made the long trip from Amarillo Texas to Dallas Texas. Once there I went through a series of testing that lasted a few days and at the end of the testing I was diagnosed with dyslexia. While only being 6 years old I was oblivious to the fact that my entire educational career was going to be anything but easy. Little did I know at the time, my diagnosis marked the first step of many, toward self-exploration and self-acceptance. While it

reading problem called dyslexia. Having dyslexia does not mean that a child will never read, but it does mean that this child will learn to read in a different way than most children of the same age. “While dyslexia can make reading more difficult, almost all individuals with dyslexia can learn to read.” (International Dyslexia Association website) Most people take reading for granted, but that is not so for a child that has dyslexia because reading may be hard to nearly

Dyslexia is a very common learning disability and I will be talking about different facts about dyslexia and my journey through having dyslexia. A good way to understand dyslexia is to establish what it is not. It’s not a sign of low intelligence or laziness or poor vision. In this paper I will discuss what dyslexia is, signs and symptoms, treatment, and my journey through dyslexia. II. What is Dyslexia Dyslexia is a specific reading disability due to a defect in the brain’s possessing of graphic

Dyslexia is regarded as the parent of all learning disabilities (Rudolf 1887).When people hear the word dyslexia, they immediately associate it with the term ‘learning disability’, but why is it seen that way? In this essay I will use sociological imagination to draw attention to the way in which society has not only affected my own growth by labelling me as disabled, but I will also bring forward the effect that society has had on all people across the world that have a learning disability like

The authors of this article are trying to test teacher attitudes towards dyslexia and to what extent they predict teacher expectations and achievement of students with dyslexia. They looked at both implicit and explicit teacher attitudes. Expectations that these teachers have of their students are also looked at; expectations are assumptions about individual students regarding their academic potential. To address the issue, 30 second-grade through sixth-grade regular education teachers for 16 schools

For my I-search project, I decided to research dyslexia and more specifically, dyslexia in elementary school-aged children and some accommodations and programs are helpful for them. Through my research, I plan to address Essential Question four, “what approaches and practices are effective in supporting the needs of individuals with disabilities across their lifespan?” I chose to research this disability because of my first-hand experience working with a middle school student who had severe dyslexia

top of their games had their own challenges to overcome. For example, did you know about Sir Richard Branson's dyslexia? Yes, you read that right. Self-made billionaire, Virgin CEO Richard Branson struggled with dyslexia while growing up. As a matter of fact, also did Albert Einstein and Steve Jobs. Richard Branson's Dyslexia: Unexpectedly Training for Success According to the Dyslexia Center of Utah, “One in five students or nearly fifteen percent of the population

Personal Skills Assignment – Maxine Cheetwood Classroom management and organisation Classroom management and organisation is vital in enforcing plans for the learning. Meaning the way in which the classroom is structured in order to assist teaching and learning. By having a sharply organised and managed classroom, also ensuring the class rules and routines are set in place and agreed would increase a good organisation for the teachers to teach their learners. Good teacher and student relationships