We can talk about the research behind dyslexia and what it is until we are blue in the face and while education is the key to understanding more about the learning obstacle dyslexia, we need to know more. What better way to learn more than to find out exactly what it is like living with dyslexia through the eyes of a 15 year old student that has been diagnosed with dyslexia? Absolutely none.
Living with dyslexia, when words are like alphabet soup #dyslexia
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Learn more about dyslexia in this first-hand account of the disorder.
The student explains what it is like to open a book. Instead of seeing words all over the page it is like a giant alphabet soup where everything is just all over the place. It would seem as if nothing kept still. These students are finding every reason to leave the classroom that they can. Read more here in the article to get a firsthand look at what they experience.
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Ms Sharpe invested her personal time in me and figured out exactly what I need to help me learn. She started a dyslexic form class and enlisted teachers that had been specifically trained to help dyslexics. That support is really great now.
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Georgia Perkins who is now 15 recalls her experience of having undiagnosed dyslexia until the age of 14. She recalls how it not only affected her grades but also her social life.
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Since she was always comparing herself to her friends who got good grades in school and her parents who thought that she wasn’t trying Georgia thought that she was stupid. This eventually led to her acting out.
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This all changed when Ms. Sharpe started teaching Georgia’s class and began to suspect that she had dyslexia. She then started using different teaching methods that helped Georgia improve her grades.
